Personality traits and disorders in childhood. Clinical evaluation and diagnosis [PDF]
Objective: aim of the paper is to examine the controversial issue of personality traits and disorders in childhood. Method: a literature review of clinical and research data was performed, and a conceptual synthesis was proposed.
Alexandro Fortunato, Anna Maria Speranza
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A Logical Defence of Maher's Model of Polythematic Delusions [PDF]
We proceed to describe a model for the formation and maintenance of polythematic delusions encountered in schizophrenia, which is in adequacy with Brendan Maher's account of delusions.
Franceschi, Paul
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A comprehensive psychological study of patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders
The article address the issue of the need for comprehensive psychological assessment of patients needed to characterize «psychological diagnosis», which (along with the biological, social and functional), an important component of a holistic (holistic ...
G. G. Lebedeva +2 more
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Symptom profiles of psychiatric disorders based on graded disease classes: an illustration using data from the WHO International Pilot Study of Schizophrenia [PDF]
The Grade of Membership (GoM) model is a classification procedure which allows a person to be a member of more than one diagnostic class. It simultaneously quantifies the degrees of membership in classes while generating the discrete symptom profiles or ‘
Anker, M. +4 more
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Folie à deux and delusional disorder by proxy in a family
This report presents a 52-year-old woman who was admitted to nephrology ward with hypernatremia. She shared a persecutory delusion of poisoning with her 22-year-old daughter and did not feed her 8-year-old son due to her delusion.
Atefeh Ghanbari Jolfaei +2 more
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Attitudes of relatives of improved and unimproved schizophrenic patients hospitalized at Bedford Veteran's Administration Hospital [PDF]
Thesis (M.S.)--Boston ...
San Martino, Mary R
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Analysis of errors in verbal fluency tasks in patients with chronic schizophrenia [PDF]
Background and Objectives: Even if verbal fluency deficits have been described in Schizophrenia, error pattern in this test has not been analyzed in detail in the literature.
Bueno, Adrián Marcelo +4 more
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Eudaimonic Pathways of Activating Compassion Reduce Vulnerabilities to Paranoia [PDF]
This study aimed to identify if compassion benefits paranoia and, if so what type of compassion. Following a series of different compassionate exercises in 104 participants it was found that mindfulness approaches were the most significant in reducing ...
Gill, J. K., Scase, M. O.
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Esquizofrenia paranoide. Un acercamiento a su estudio a propósito de un caso
RESUMEN La esquizofrenia es una de las enfermedades más invalidantes de los seres humanos, conocida como el «cáncer de la psiquiatría». Se impone como un gran reto social debido a su incidencia, su potencial en cronicidad y severidad así como las ...
Yalenis Velazco Fajardo +4 more
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