Associative intrusions in the vocabulary of schizophrenic and other patients
| Autor: | J Klinka, D Papageorgis |
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| Rok vydání: | 1976 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Vocabulary Adolescent media_common.quotation_subject Audiology Association 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine medicine Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Affective Symptoms Associative property media_common Psychological Tests Mental Disorders Thought disorder Wechsler Scales Length of Stay Middle Aged 030227 psychiatry Hospitalization Psychiatry and Mental health Chronic Disease Female Schizophrenic Psychology medicine.symptom Psychology Cognition Disorders Schizophrenic Language Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science. 129 |
| ISSN: | 0007-1250 |
| Popis: | SummaryAssociative intrusions in the thought of short-term and long-term schizophrenic, non-schizophrenic, and non-psychiatric in-patients were measured using Rattan and Chapman's multiple-choice vocabulary test. This test consists of two subtests, one with associative distractors and the other without distractors, which are matched on discriminating power and thus permit the assessment of differential specific performance deficit uncontaminated by the generalized deficit characteristic of many patient groups.Results indicated that some susceptibility to associative intrusions characterizes all groups of long-term patients regardless of diagnosis. Short-term patients (with the possible exception of schizophrenic) did not show such heightened susceptibility.Lengthy illness and/or stay in hospital are apparently implicated in at least this form of thought disorder, which has been often considered to be a uniquely schizophrenic phenomenon. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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