Anxiety and depression in cardiac patients: age differences and comparisons with the general population.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Possession states are still commonly seen in developing societies as acceptable cultural phenomena in normal persons as well as in those with psychiatric illness. 'Possession' is defined here as the experience of being taken over, controlled or occupied by another spirit or force. SAMPLING AND METHODS:This ...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Somasundaram D,Thivakaran T,Bhugra D

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A postmortem inquiry of 105 legal documents concerning suicide deaths obtained from the Office of the District Attorney covering the province of Achaia was studied for the 15-year period 1970-1984. The suicides were classified into two groups; group A consisting of 63 suicides (with a history of psychiatric illness) a...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Gabriel J,Paschalis C

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many studies on the autobiographical memory and the explanation of reasons for success and failure proved that persons suffering from major depression tend to overgeneralize. This study examines the hypothesis that changes of reactions caused by a depressive disorder can be described by the affected persons ...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Leibetseder M,Kamolz T

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A considerable number of schizophrenic patients develop delusions of technical alien control. In such cases, patients experience their thoughts, movements and feelings to be controlled by mysterious machines and contemporary technologies such as computers, the internet, X-rays and lasers. METHODS:In this pa...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Hirjak D,Fuchs T

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the significant need for coordinated approaches to the treatment of substance misuse worldwide, there are still major gaps in both the provision of services and in the development of a theoretically unified approach to care. We suggest that a phenomenological approach to care can provide comprehensive, theoret...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Messas GP,Fukuda L,Pienkos E

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cognitive therapy alone without concurrent behavioral components seems to be ineffective in the treatment of depressive patients. However, the combination of cognitive and behavioral treatment procedures including social skills training is effective even in the therapy of definite endogenous depression. Three importan...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Zapotoczky HG

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 'nonunderstandability' that traditional psychopathology attributes to 'true' delusion does not have a clear demarcation line, but, rather, it is a continuum of various delusional experiences. The attention paid to emotional situations and, specifically, to dysphoria, often contributes to making the delusional phen...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Ballerini A,Ballerini AC

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The DSM criteria for a delusion indicate that it should not include any beliefs held by a person's 'culture or subculture'. The internet has many examples of people reporting 'mind control experiences' (MCEs) on self-published web pages, many of which suggest a community based around such beliefs and experie...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Bell V,Maiden C,Muñoz-Solomando A,Reddy V

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dysphoric states have been of particular interest for a long time since they occur not only in patients with psycho-organic syndromes but also in those with manic-depressive disease. This paper discusses some aspects of dysphoria from the pathophysiological point of view. Data mostly derived from epileptic patients in...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Pockberger H

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Up to 60% of bipolar disorder (BD) patients develop alcohol use disorders (AUD) at some point in their lives. The causes of this highly prevalent comorbidity are unknown. High trait impulsivity characterizes both isolated BD and AUD and may be a link to explain the association between BD and AUD. In this stu...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Nery FG,Hatch JP,Monkul ES,Matsuo K,Zunta-Soares GB,Bowden CL,Soares JC

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a severe psychiatric illness that is difficult to treat. The effects of trazodone hydrochloride treatment were studied, both with and without the addition of a monoamine oxidase inhibitor, in OCD patients. Changes in symptoms correlated with changes in local cerebral metabolic ra...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Baxter LR Jr,Thompson JM,Schwartz JM,Guze BH,Phelps ME,Mazziotta JC,Selin CE,Moss L

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mental disorders can be associated with suicidal or aggressive ideation and behavior, especially in the context of embitterment. The aim of this study is to investigate the types, prevalence, and dangerousness of aggressive and suicidal ideations associated with embitterment. METHODS:When therapists from th...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Linden M,Noack I

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study involves a retrospective chart review of all patients who visited the Emergency Mental Health Service during the period of July 1, 1985 to June, 30, 1986 (total visits = 2,772). It compares those 'suicidal' patients seen only once during the index year with those seen multiple times (comparison of fi...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Peterson LG,Bongar B

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Phenomenological psychopathology, through theoretical and idiographic studies, conceptualizes major depressive disorder (MDD) as a disorder of time experience. Investigations on abnormal time experience (ATE) in MDD adopting methodologies requested by the standards of empirical sciences are still lacking. Ou...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Stanghellini G,Ballerini M,Presenza S,Mancini M,Northoff G,Cutting J

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Delusional repetitiveness as a peculiar form of delusional remembrance is very rare in the literature and has not been considered in detail. the author presents a schizophrenic case with delusional repetitiveness and considers its features and meaning in treatment. The patient's feelings about a deadlock in treatment ...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Nakaya M

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the case of a patient who presented with catatonic features and delusion of test-tube pregnancy in the background of previous sexual abuse. The reported case illustrates the importance of contemporary themes in the evolution of psychopathology. ...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Manoj PN,John JP,Gandhi A,Kewalramani M,Murthy P,Chaturvedi SK,Isaac MK

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on a sample of 300 psychiatric patients the items of the Standard Progressive Matrices test are analyzed in terms of classical and probabilistic methods, and a version shortened to 30 items is developed. This new version of the test is then standardized from a new sample of 1,200 patients. A table of selected pe...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Wytek R,Opgenoorth E,Presslich O

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recognition and treatment of depressive states, as well as their prevention, call for special knowledge and experience. Therefore it was considered desirable that practising physicians with no specialised knowledge of psychiatry should be given more extensive opportunity for post-graduate instruction in the diagno...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Adams C

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Little interest has been taken in the characteristics of depression in medical and surgical patients and its correlations with syndromes which may be subsumed under the rubric of abnormal illness behaviour. Depressive symptoms and abnormal illness behaviour as measured by self-rating scales were studied among 325 inpa...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Fava GA,Zielezny M,Pilowsky I,Trombini G

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors take into account body involvement during the existential critical periods. The concept of body involvement considers both the biological (organic) involvement of the body, i.e. all the 'psychosomatic' (in a wider sense) dimensions, and the involvement of the mental representation of one's body. This invol...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Lorenzi P,Hardoy MC,Cabras PL

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to show that objective extrapyramidal symptoms (O-EPS) were strongly correlated to negative and depressive symptoms while subjective extrapyramidal symptoms (S-EPS) were not. Ninety-one schizophrenic patients were evaluated by the Extrapyramidal Symptoms Rating Scale (ESRS), Montgomery and As...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Dollfus S,Ribeyre JM,Petit M

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parkinson's disease is frequently associated with depressive symptoms. When depression occurs at early stages and before the onset of characteristic motor symptoms of the disease, differential diagnosis of major depression may be difficult. Differences in psychopathological features of depression in Parkinson's diseas...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Merschdorf U,Berg D,Csoti I,Fornadi F,Merz B,Naumann M,Becker G,Supprian T

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concept of narrative identity implies a continuity of the personal past, present and future. This concept is essentially based on the capacity of persons to integrate contradictory aspects and tendencies into a coherent, overarching sense and view of themselves. In 'mature' neurotic disorders, this is only possibl...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Fuchs T

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Misidentification phenomena, including the delusion of 'imposters' named after Joseph Capgras, occur in various major psychiatric and neurological disorders but have rarely been studied systematically in broad samples of modern patients. This study investigated the prevalence and correlated clinical factors ...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Salvatore P,Bhuvaneswar C,Tohen M,Khalsa HM,Maggini C,Baldessarini RJ

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cannabis is a possible risk factor for the onset of schizophrenia and can induce neurocognitive, behavioural and motor co-ordination alterations. The aim of this study was to evaluate the role of cannabis in the occurrence of neurological soft signs (NSS) and, considering that this drug has been related to p...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Bersani G,Orlandi V,Gherardelli S,Pancheri P

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alexithymia as a disorder of affect regulation entails a patient's reduced ability to process emotional information. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of alexithymia [as measured by the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS)-26, German version] on affective correlates in a dyadic therapeutic interaction (a...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Rasting M,Brosig B,Beutel ME

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Interoceptive processes were found to be associated with better self-regulation capacities in healthy participants. Further empirical research suggests that interoceptive sensitivity is also important for the perception of pain both in healthy participants and in somatoform patients. Nevertheless, little is ...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Weiss S,Sack M,Henningsen P,Pollatos O

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-three patients with one or more delusional misidentification syndromes were studied. The majority of the subjects were females and the Capgras syndrome was the most common delusional misidentification syndrome in our sample. The Capgras syndrome cases were significant older than the Fregoli syndrome cases. Schi...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Oyebode F,Sargeant R

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study we have attempted to objectify the diagnosis of the borderline syndrome by the use of formal Rorschach testing criteria. The randomly selected protocols of 140 subjects between the ages of 17 and 25 were subjected to cluster analysis of currently accepted scoring criteria for such phenomena as prevalence...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Fischnaller M,Opgenoorth E,Schuster P

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and social anxiety disorder (SAD) frequently co-occur in persons with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). We studied which features distinguish 'pure' anxiety disordered patients from those with co-morbid ASD. METHOD:In a case-controlled design in which groups were matched fo...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Cath DC,Ran N,Smit JH,van Balkom AJ,Comijs HC

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00