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Jan 18, 2017 20:15
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Spanish term

discreta hipertimia hacia la tristeza

Spanish to English Medical Psychology
Estoy traduciendo un informe médico sobre una persona con trastorno obsesivo-compulsivo. En la descripción de síntomas dice:

"Afecto: poco expresivo, **discreta hipertimia hacia la tristeza**.

Hipertimia = hyperthymia; tristeza: sadness, unhappiness.

Hipertimia: estado de ánimo caracterizado por un aumento anormal del tono afectivo, generalmente acompañado de alegría excesiva o hiperactividad [ref. Diccionario de términos médicos de la Real Academia Nacional de Medicina]

No entiendo muy bien lo que dice el informe. ¿Que pasa de una discreta hipertimia a la tristeza?

Mil gracias por adelantado

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Charles Davis Jan 18, 2017:
Continued "Hipertimia displacentera del tipo de la tristeza, ansiedad, a veces cierta irritabilidad"
http://gsdl.bvs.sld.cu/cgi-bin/library?e=d-00000-00---off-0e...

And so on. This could be what they mean here. "Poco expresivo" is striking too; it's not normally associated with hyperthymia. I don't know how an English-speaking psychiatrist would express this, though it is possibly related to what this author is referring to by the term "subaffective hyperthymia":
https://books.google.es/books?id=qC2umbulUIwC&pg=PA39&lpg=PA...
Charles Davis Jan 18, 2017:
"hipertimia displacentera"? I'm not so sure. "Hipertimia" is used in some texts in Spanish in a way that "hyperthymia" doesn't seem to be used in English. There are a number of references to "hipertimia displacentera", which apparently means hyperthymia of a negative kind and is equated with depressive moods, or with irritability:

"A preguntas del Tribunal respondió que la ira, vendría a ser una especie de hipertimia displacentera, que genera malestar en el paciente, que inclina hacia la irritabilidad"
http://tribunales-primera-instancia.vlex.com.ve/vid/araque-l...

"durante las entrevistas estuvo desorientado en tiempo, con hipertimia displacentera hacia la tristeza y en ocasiones irritabilidad"
(Interview with a mentally disturbed person convicted of homicide)
http://www.saber.ula.ve/bitstream/123456789/32340/1/articulo...

"La primera característica es la hipertimia displacentera, el sentimiento de tristeza inmotivada o desproporcionado"
https://www.marietan.com/material_depresion/31_estado_animo....

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Joseph Tein Jan 18, 2017:
Hi Yvonne,

The report is describing the range of the person's affect. You would add "from" moderate hyperthymia to sadness.
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