Delusional misidentification syndromes and dangerousness.

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：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：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：:A sample of 83 first-admitted patients with delusional depression were diagnosed according to DSM-III, ICD-9 and reactive and endogenous types. They were followed up twice after a mean of 10 and 18.5 years. As to background, course and outcome variables DSM-III schizoaffective patients were closely related to affectiv...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Opjordsmoen S

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors summarize the international clinical research performed on trazodone, underlying some pharmacodynamic and therapeutic features of the activity of the drug, the originality of its pharmacodynamic profile and the possibility of using trazodone in a wide range of primary or secondary depression subtypes. Avai...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Agnoli A,De Gregorio M,Dionisio A

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The published prevalence rates of depressive disorders have steadily increased during the last 20 years. Despite many methodological and social cultural influences, the increase seems to be real and reasons for this trend are given. Among them, the increase of life expectancy, the urbanization, and the possibility for...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Gastpar M

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study is to present a theoretical paper about a clinical issue. Our aim is to propose some clinical and semiological considerations for a psychopathological conception of psychopathy. We will discuss several major theoretical works dedicated to this nosographic entity (mainly those of Schneider [...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Englebert J

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have described co-occurrence between obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and dissociation. We intended to evaluate the phenomenological association between different obsessive-compulsive and dissociative symptoms more precisely. Seventy patients with OCD (DSM-IV) were evaluated with the Hamburg Obsess...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Grabe HJ,Goldschmidt F,Lehmkuhl L,Gänsicke M,Spitzer C,Freyberger HJ

更新日期：1999-11-01 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:Preoccupied and fearful attachment have both been associated with depressive symptoms, but it is unclear which attachment style is primarily associated with major depression. While preoccupied attachment denotes a focus on relationships as a source of self-validation, fearful attachment involves an avoidance...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Reis S,Grenyer BF

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several C-3-substituted beta-carbolines (e.g., the ethyl ester of beta-carboline-3-carboxylic acid) have high affinities for benzodiazepine receptors and can antagonize the principal pharmacologic actions of the benzodiazepines. The observation that some of these compounds also possess 'intrinsic' actions, best descri...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Skolnick P,Crawley JN,Glowa JR,Paul SM

更新日期：1984-01-01 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：:Sixty schizophrenics and 40 depressives in remission from the floridly psychotic phase were given a semi-structured interview concerning their abnormal perceptual experiences at the onset of their illness. About 50% of each set of subjects had experienced an alteration in the quality of their perception. However, ther...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Cutting J,Dunne F

更新日期：1986-01-01 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：:Several investigations showed that the Frankfurt Complaint Questionnaire (FCQ) has no diagnostic specificity. However, in a preceding study two new FCQ subscales were developed: FCQ-S, sensitive to schizophrenia, and FCQ-A, sensitive to alcoholism. The aim of the present study was to replicate the diagnostic sensitivi...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Mass R,Weigel S,Schneider S,Klepsch R

更新日期：1998-01-01 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：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：: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：BACKGROUND/AIM:Every day, a substantial proportion of the general population experiences the distressing and frightening signs of an upcoming psychiatric illness. The consequences can be enormous because severe psychiatric disorders typically cause the loss of the ability to work and often mean a long-term burden for b...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Bridler R,Orosz A,Cattapan K,Stassen HH

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Alexithymia is a disturbance in regulating affective states. Clinical observations suggest that alexithymic patients relate to others in a specific way. This paper explores whether specific relationship or transference patterns are typical of alexithymia. SAMPLING AND METHODS:Relationship patterns were asse...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Vanheule S,Desmet M,Rosseel Y,Verhaeghe P,Meganck R

更新日期：2007-01-01 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：:Psychiatric disorders have a distinct shape, come in types and are inherent in Homo sapiens. To a social scientist, disorders exist by stipulation: contingent on a psychiatric frame of reference. Their materiality has meaning only in that framework. What is important is what that material might correspond to in a soci...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Fabrega H Jr

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ICD-8 diagnosis applicable to borderline psychosis in children is psychosis limitaris infantilis (299.02). Results from a register-based study referring to all Danish children admitted between 1970 and 1992 and diagnosed borderline psychosis are presented here. A total of 415 children (332 boys and 83 girls) were ...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Thomsen PH

更新日期：1996-11-01 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：:There is considerable evidence that maternal postnatal psychiatric disorder has an adverse influence on infant development. In attempting to examine the pathways of intergenerational transmission, most research has concentrated on genetic factors or on maternal behaviours during mother-child interaction and attachment...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Stein A,Lehtonen A,Harvey AG,Nicol-Harper R,Craske M

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The coexistence of the delusions of infestation and of body smell is reported. In the analysis of a schizophrenic patient, the authors suppose a connection between object loss and the formation of secondary symptoms. Delusions of infestation and/or body smell can be an indication for a careful psychological analysis i...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Tényi T,Trixler M

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, emotion is dealt with as a complex theoretical term, whose empirical referents derive from physiological, behavioral and subjective discourses (psychophysiological triad). It is argued that the meaning of emotion terms is not exhausted by any of these discourses (or 'texts'), but by the complementary co...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Lolas F

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two instruments for the assessment of the DSM-III-R personality disorders were compared: The Personality Disorders Questionnaire--Revised (PDQ-R) and the Munich Diagnostic Checklist for the assessment of DSM-III-R Personality Disorders (MDCL-P). Using kappa value as a measure of agreement, the diagnostic agreement was...

journal_title：Psychopathology

authors： Bronisch T,Flett S,Garcia-Borreguero D,Wolf R

更新日期：1993-01-01 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：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