Quantification of 'regressive thinking' by use of the Rorschach test. Leading symptom of the borderline syndrome?

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We prospectively investigated a sample of 42 patients with acute and transient psychotic disorder (ATPD) as defined by the 10th revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10; F23) to determine the clinical and demographic features of this entity and its relationship to cycloid psychoses. M...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Pillmann F,Haring A,Balzuweit S,Blöink R,Marneros A

更新日期：2001-11-01 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：:This exploratory study is the first to examine the neural correlates of attachment status in adults. The study examined the feasibility of assessing attachment narratives in the functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) environment by challenging subjects to tell attachment stories to specific attachment pictures f...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Buchheim A,Erk S,George C,Kachele H,Ruchsow M,Spitzer M,Kircher T,Walter H

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Eating disturbances are frequent in bipolar disorder and are associated with poor outcome. Our objective is to assess the psychometric properties of a specific scale for the evaluation of eating disturbances in bipolar patients. SAMPLING AND METHODS:Validation study of 2 groups with a 6-month follow-up (90 ...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Torrent C,Vieta E,Garcia-Garcia M,Spanish Working Group for the validation of the Barcelona Bipolar Eating Disorder Scale (BEDS) for bipolar patients with eating disturbances.

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A variety of conduct disorder (CD) symptoms are seen together as a symptom cluster. Among CD symptoms there are serious and stubborn antisocial behaviors: lying, swindling, running away from home/school, destructiveness, arson, kidnapping women, sexual abuse, and armed robbery. The objective of this study wa...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Doğan O,Onder Z,Doğan S,Akyüz G

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To identify core vulnerability features capable of discriminating subjects who are more prone to develop eating disorders. SAMPLING AND METHODS:A nonclinical group composed of 253 university students was studied by means of the Identity and Eating Disorders questionnaire (IDEA), exploring abnormal attitudes ...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Stanghellini G,Trisolini F,Castellini G,Ambrosini A,Faravelli C,Ricca V

更新日期：2015-01-01 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：BACKGROUND:It is often suggested in the literature that alexithymic patients are less responsive to psychotherapy than nonalexithymic patients. However, few empirical studies have examined this issue. Furthermore, it is unclear whether or not alexithymia itself may improve during psychotherapy. METHODS:Fifty-five cons...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Rufer M,Albrecht R,Zaum J,Schnyder U,Mueller-Pfeiffer C,Hand I,Schmidt O

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite the categorical position of formal diagnostic approaches (i.e. ICD-10 and DSM-IV) to mood disorders, atypical depression (AD) occupies an ambiguous position between major depressive (MDD) and bipolar II (BP-II) disorders. METHODS:Three hundred and eighty-nine and 261 consecutive BP-II and MDD patien...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Akiskal HS,Benazzi F

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In contrast to the clinical psychopathological approach to emotion, we used aspects of the cognitive emotion theories formulated by Lazarus [1966] and Folkman and Lazarus [1985]. According to these theories, emotion is a product of cognitive appraisal and coping a mechanism regulating emotion. We put into operation fo...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Baldaszti E,Naske R,Opgenoorth E

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Color preferences of 61 patients with major depressive disorder were compared to 69 controls. A multidimensional scaling analysis revealed a difference in overall color arrangements between groups. The possible significance of this is discussed. ...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Garvey MJ,Luxenberg M

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adjustment disorder is one of the most prevalent mental disorders. However, there are almost no measures available for its assessment. We aimed to analyze the psychometric properties of a brief version of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD)-11 adjustment disorder scale (Adjustment Disorder New Module-8;...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Kazlauskas E,Gegieckaite G,Eimontas J,Zelviene P,Maercker A

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:77 patients with delusional psychoses, regardless of their nosological attribution (except severe organicity), and their first-degree relatives were diagnosed with the Research Diagnostic Criteria (RDC) and the Vienna Research Criteria (VRC). The diagnostic procedure was performed blindly in the relatives. Both criter...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Schanda H,Lieber A,Küfferle B,Gabriel E,Berner P

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is evidence that anxiety is common, perhaps even more prevalent than depression, in the post-partum period. In this review we propose adopting a transdiagnostic approach to perinatal mental health: to delineate psychopathology and identify potential underlying cognitive mechanisms such as repetitive ne...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Moulds ML,Black MJ,Newby JM,Hirsch CR

更新日期：2018-01-01 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:The purpose of this study was to reassess former child and adolescent psychiatric patients as adults with regard to their further development. METHODS:We used a 'catch-up' design. A former child and adolescent psychiatric patient cohort and controls (matched for sex and age) were assessed as adults with sta...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Brieger P,Blöink R,Sommer S,Marneros A

更新日期：2001-01-01 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:Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a severe condition with varied symptom presentations. Currently, the cognitive-behavioral treatment with the most empirical support is exposure and ritual prevention (EX/RP); however, clinical impression and some empirical data suggest that certain OCD symptoms are more...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Williams MT,Mugno B,Franklin M,Faber S

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：:A patient may experience hallucinations in more than one modality simultaneously or at different times and they may or may not appear to emanate from a single source. Current nomenclature is imprecise, often has particular diagnostic implications and fails to distinguish between these different phenomena. This has res...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Chesterman LP,Boast N

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Beyond the language of medicine and psychology, the essence of many psychopathological experiences remains something that cannot be explained, even if it is possible to perceive it. Phenomenological language in this case must adapt itself to the heart of the lived experience. The phenomenological attitude, in particul...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Di Petta G,Tittarelli D

更新日期：2019-01-01 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：:The release of DSM-5 and the preparations for the launch of the ICD-11 provoked a series of critiques of psychiatric classification, which continues to depend largely on clinical description. Among the immediate problems are those of arbitrary diagnostic thresholds, tendency to reification, rigid category boundaries, ...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Parnas J,Jansson LB

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The evolution of the German-Scandinavian concept of cycloid psychosis and of the French concept of 'bouffée délirante' is analyzed. It is stressed that they probably correspond to the same clinical entity, not overlapping with any of the American nosological categories, although sharing a number of features with the o...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Maj M

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:According to Karl Jaspers, psychopathology requires a comprehensive method, understood as a systematic exploration of the first-person perspective of the patient's experience. At the same time, however, schizophrenia for Jaspers is characterized by its radical incomprehensibility. In addition, Rümke's so-cal...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Gozé T,Grohmann T,Naudin J,Cermolacce M

更新日期：2017-01-01 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：BACKGROUND:Despite increasing evidence of cognitive dysfunctions in bipolar I disorder, there is no specific neuropsychological profile of the disorder. SAMPLING AND METHOD:The aim of the present study was to investigate the effect of processing speed on other cognitive functions in a population-based sample of 32 fam...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Antila M,Kieseppä T,Partonen T,Lönnqvist J,Tuulio-Henriksson A

更新日期：2011-01-01 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:In psychiatry and psychotherapy, dealing with aggressiveness and autoaggressiveness is of great importance. Our aim was to find a link between overt aggressive and autoaggressive behaviour, which could be readily observed. SAMPLING AND METHODS:We investigated the frequency, type and intensity of aggressive,...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Grube M

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The assessment of personality functioning has recently become a focus of psychiatric diagnostics. The interview-based Operationalized Psychodynamic Diagnosis (OPD-2) provides a 'structure axis' for the assessment of personality functioning. METHODS:One hundred twenty-four psychiatric patients were diagnosed...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Doering S,Burgmer M,Heuft G,Menke D,Bäumer B,Lübking M,Feldmann M,Schneider G

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00