| Autor: |
de Figueiredo JM; Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT. |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Zdroj: |
Comprehensive psychiatry [Compr Psychiatry] 1993 Sep-Oct; Vol. 34 (5), pp. 308-11. |
| DOI: |
10.1016/0010-440x(93)90016-w |
| Abstrakt: |
Demoralization may be viewed as a combination of distress and subjective incompetence. The main problem in demoralization is the sense of incompetence experienced by the demoralized individual; this sense of incompetence results from uncertainty as to the appropriate direction of action. By contrast, the major difficulty in endogenomorphic depression is a decreased magnitude of motivation even when the appropriate direction of action is known. This distinction is important not only because demoralization appears to be a major public health problem, but also because subjective incompetence appears to influence the course and worsen the prognosis of both nonpsychiatric and psychiatric disorders. |
| Databáze: |
MEDLINE |
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