New Insight into Affectivity in Schizophrenia: from the Phenomenology of Marc Richir.

abstract：:Metaphor comprehension was studied in schizophrenics as compared to psychiatric and nonpsychiatric controls. Subjects were asked in a two-condition forced-choice response task to detect the metaphor similar or contrary to a proverb with an abstract meaning. Schizophrenic patients were impaired in both conditions. Howe...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： de Bonis M,Epelbaum C,Deffez V,Féline A

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Impulsivity is a core feature of borderline personality disorder (BPD). However, previous clinical and experimental studies investigating impulsivity in BPD rendered mixed results. In this study, impulsivity was assessed by self-report scales and behavioral inhibition tasks to compare different data levels. ...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Jacob GA,Gutz L,Bader K,Lieb K,Tüscher O,Stahl C

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the case of a 44-year-old woman admitted with mania with psychotic symptoms who presented with delusion of twin pregnancy a month after admission, which temporally correlated with hyperprolactinemia secondary to antipsychotic medication. Modification of antipsychotic medication was associated with fall in ...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Ahuja N,Vasudev K,Lloyd A

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The association of negative symptoms on one hand and cognitive failures and language and thought disturbances on the other hand was examined in 25 schizophrenics and 22 neurotics over a 2-month period of intensive therapy. Psychopathological negative symptoms were more pronounced in schizophrenics than in neurotics at...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Mundt C,Barnett W,Witt G

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The current debate on the continuity or discontinuity of psychotic symptoms and common psychic experiences has mainly dealt with methodological, epidemiological and clinical issues, but it has neglected epistemological research on the main concepts of the field. METHODS:The implicit epistemic structure of c...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Rejón Altable C,Múzquiz Jiménez Á

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case report is presented of a koro-like syndrome in a 34-year-old Bedouin man living in the Negev desert in Israel. The patient's disturbance is accompanied by voyeurism and the onset appears to be related to his sexual practices. This is the first reported case among Bedouins, who are an Arab nomadic tribe living i...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Witztum E,Bersudsky Y,Mayodovnik H,Kotler M

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phylogenetic and ontogenetic developments of social cognition have been a major research focus of evolutionary and developmental psychology. Theory of mind or so-called Machiavellian intelligence, that is the capacity to infer mental states of other individuals and to manipulate them in order to maximise social su...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Brüne M

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional psychosis has only rarely been described in context with extreme stressors, most studies focusing singularly on posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms. We report for the first time the case histories of 2 patients suffering from Capgras syndrome along with schizoaffective disorder and posttraumatic stress d...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Wenzel T,Sibitz I,Kieffer W,Strobl R

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to compare the prevalence of certain symptoms in adolescence with those at other ages, 6,034 apparently normal subjects aged 9-60 years were studied by questionnaire. Fear of blushing and fear of being looked at showed a maximum in the mid-teens and a subsequent gradual decrease both in males and females. The...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Abe K,Suzuki T

更新日期：1986-01-01 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：:Starting from a neurobiological standpoint, I will propose that our capacity to understand others as intentional agents, far from being exclusively dependent upon mentalistic/linguistic abilities, be deeply grounded in the relational nature of our interactions with the world. According to this hypothesis, an implicit,...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Gallese V

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transsexualism is a challenging entity posing diagnostical, etiological, ethical and moral questions with no general consensus of opinion and a controversial management policy. The present article tries to deal with these questions by drawing a parallel with another psychiatric syndrome in which there is also a distur...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Becker D,Mester R

更新日期：1996-01-01 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：BACKGROUND:In many severely mentally disordered children, the clinical presentation is complicated by comorbid affective and behavioral dysregulation. Recently, a highly heritable behavioral phenotype of simultaneous deviance on the anxious/depressed, attention problems, and aggressive behavior syndrome scales has been...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Holtmann M,Becker A,Banaschewski T,Rothenberger A,Roessner V

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is widely accepted that depressives focus on negative memories, and forget or repress positive memories (showing a mood-congruent affective tendency). Normals have an opposite positive bias in memory ('Pollyanna tendency'). Research evidence for depressives' negative bias in memory comes mainly from studies of retr...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Calev A

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The domains of the 26-item World Health Organization Quality of Life Instrument (WHOQOL-Bref) contain heterogeneous items and do not encompass the logical constructs of subjective quality of life (QOL). We compared the WHO 4-domain and 6-domain models of the WHOQOL-Bref with the 8-domain model that we obtained from fa...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Ohaeri JU,Olusina AK,Al-Abassi AH

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:Using a cognitive framework, this paper examined self-perceptions as a vulnerability to phenomena in obsessive-compulsive disorder. Specifically, Guidano and Liotti's model of self-ambivalence (from 1983) and the notion of self-worth contingent upon moral standards were investigated as possible mechanis...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Ahern C,Kyrios M,Moulding R

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Anxiety and depression are often found in cardiac patients, but also in the general population. Therefore, evaluation of these symptoms in patients requires a comparison with norm values. The purpose of this study was to explore differences between cardiac patients and the general population in age dependenc...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Hinz A,Kittel J,Karoff M,Daig I

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:While considerable research attention has been devoted to the causal relationship between substance use and psychosis, the phenomenology of the association between the two has largely been ignored. This is a significant shortcoming, because it blinds researchers to the possibility that there may be elements ...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Nelson B,Sass LA

更新日期：2008-01-01 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：:A case of true conversive hallucinations in a 19-year-old female soldier is described. This phenomenon is rare and should be distinguished from psychotic or dissociative states. ...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Spivak B,Livnat E,Weizman A,Rabinowitz S,Mark M

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients with panic disorder have higher rates of suicide than the general population. Among panic disorder subjects, early onset, female gender, alcohol abuse, and mood disorder increase the risk of suicidality. However, less is known about the unique relationships between discrete DSM-IV panic symptoms and...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Lim SW,Ko EM,Shin DW,Shin YC,Oh KS

更新日期：2015-01-01 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：:The reliability and usefulness of the Scale for Assessment of Thought, Language and Communication was evaluated in a group of psychotic in-patients. A very high interrater reliability (0.75-1.0) and an optimum rate-rerate reliability (0.50-1.0) were found on the individual items of the scale as well as the global rati...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Mazumdar PK,Chaturvedi SK,Sinha V,Gopinath PS

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The objective of this descriptive review is to summarize the current scientific evidence on the effect of prenatal exposure to maternal infection and immune response on the offspring's risk for mental disorders (schizophrenia spectrum disorders, autism spectrum disorders, attention-deficit hyperactivity diso...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Flinkkilä E,Keski-Rahkonen A,Marttunen M,Raevuori A

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Delinquency among depressed patients plays a minor role in criminal behavior. Among the most tragic associations between depression and criminality are cases of extended suicide or suicide attempt. We studied psychopathology, personality, and psychosocial stressors of 9 Austrian females who committed a serious extende...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Meszaros K,Fischer-Danzinger D

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present report studies the differences between schizophrenic responders and nonresponders within the different symptomatologic groups of the Scale for the Assessment of Negative Symptoms (SANS) and the Scale for the Assessment of Positive Symptoms (SAPS). The relationship between the different electrodermal activi...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Fuentes I,García Merita M,Miquel M,Rojo J

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

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：BACKGROUND:The volume of research involving adjustment disorder (AD) is limited. The scientific neglect of AD seems to result from the inadequate operationalisation of AD in DSM-IV and ICD-10. The aims of the present proposal are to discuss the shortcomings of AD conceptualisations and to present recommendations for th...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Baumeister H,Maercker A,Casey P

更新日期：2009-01-01 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