Conceptual thinking in psychiatric patients
| Autor: | Leonard F. Salzman, Robert H. Goldstein, Haroutun Babigian, Robert W. Atkins |
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| Rok vydání: | 1966 |
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Adult
medicine.medical_specialty Neurotic Disorders Schizophrenia (object-oriented programming) Concept Formation Concreteness Developmental psychology Diagnosis Differential Thinking Cognition Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Pathognomonic Concept learning Schizophrenic Psychology medicine Humans Psychological testing Psychiatry Psychological Tests Depression Mental Disorders Middle Aged Psychiatry and Mental health Psychology Psychopathology |
| Zdroj: | Archives of general psychiatry. 14(1) |
| ISSN: | 0003-990X |
| Popis: | STUDIES OF the cognitive aspects of psychopathology have for some time stressed the importance of disturbances of conceptual behavior. 2,4,5 The phenomena of "concreteness," "over-inclusiveness," and other forms of disordered conceptualizing have been widely examined and discussed. Particular significance has been attributed to the role of such disturbances of thinking in schizophrenia. 6 When questions of differential diagnosis arise, it has become common clinical practice to utilize the criterion of disturbed abstracting abilities as a pathognomonic indicator of a schizophrenic disorder. Brief tests of abstracting abilities, such as the interpretation of proverbs, are commonly included in procedures designed to assess a patient's mental status in the course of the diagnostic study of a patient. 12 Much of the empirical justification for this practice derives from studies which tend to demonstrate that the conceptual skills of schizophrenics are different from or inferior to the conceptual abilities of normal nonschizophrenic individuals. 5 |
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