摘要:

The time estimation of 31 depressive patients (15 endogenous and 16 neurotic depressives) was tested in two ways: the patients had to estimate the length of a preceding discussion and then to estimate the length of the proceeding 1/2 and 2 minutes. The examinations were made before the start of the therapy, after therapeutic sleep deprivation and (with a part of these patients) in the course of a 4 weeks amitriptyline therapy. Before the treatment, the depressives overestimated the time of the just passed discussion and underestimated the lenght of 1/2 and 2 minutes. This could correspond to an acceleration of the «inner watch». The morning after sleep deprivation, the errors were still greater, although the condition of the endogenous depressions improved. On the next day, there was a tendency to revert to the praetherapeutic values (as well as to the clinical evaluation). With the amitriptyline therapy the changes were opposite to those after the sleep deprivation: the errors were smaller, though not entirely corrected. The results are discussed in relation to some previous experimental examinations and to the phenomenological analysis of the time sense of depressives.

ISSN:0254-4962    

DOI:10.1159/000283292

出版商:S. Karger AG    

年代:1973

数据来源: Karger

摘要:

The history of the condition is traced from 1892 until the present day and the various views concerning the syndrome are examined. Eight patients exhibiting the syndrome are described, and the likely diagnoses discussed. It seems likely that delusions of infestation, whether based on haptic hallucinations or not, may arise in the course of a functional psychosis, an organic psychosyndrome or in the absence of demonstrable psychosis. In respect of these latter cases the question of delusions, or delusion-like ideas and the problem of paranoia are discussed.

ISSN:0254-4962    

DOI:10.1159/000283293

出版商:S. Karger AG    

年代:1973

数据来源: Karger

摘要:

Success is seldom regarded as a cause of psychic disturbances of an anxiety-depressive type, and current psychiatric text-books scarcely mention the possibility, although it has long been taken into account in the psychoanalytical literature. The authors illustrate these reactions with four ‘base reports’ and discuss their possible psychodynamic background. Knowledge of the existence of such syndromes and knowledge of their psychodynamic background is a necessary requisite for adequate treatment measu

ISSN:0254-4962    

DOI:10.1159/000283295

出版商:S. Karger AG    

年代:1973

数据来源: Karger

摘要:

It is demonstrated that ‘perseveration’ can be used and is quantifiable and meaningfully adaptable as a metaterm in the psychopathology and in the description of normal people, covering a lot of similar phenomena in the sense of adequate or inadequate persistence of mental processes or behavior. Known theories about perseveration are discussed. Perseveration is insufficiently explained by the brain damage, because incongruent results were found and many groups of non-brain-damaged people showed even higher perseverations than those. A theory of higher order about perseverations as primitive forms or regressions of behavior is presen

ISSN:0254-4962    

DOI:10.1159/000283296

出版商:S. Karger AG    

年代:1973

数据来源: Karger

ISSN:0254-4962    

DOI:10.1159/000283298

出版商:S. Karger AG    

年代:1973

数据来源: Karger

ISSN:0254-4962    

DOI:10.1159/000283299

出版商:S. Karger AG    

年代:1973

数据来源: Karger

ISSN:0254-4962    

DOI:10.1159/000283300

出版商:S. Karger AG    

年代:1973

数据来源: Karger

ISSN:0254-4962    

DOI:10.1159/000283301

出版商:S. Karger AG    

年代:1973

数据来源: Karger

ISSN:0254-4962    

DOI:10.1159/000283302

出版商:S. Karger AG    

年代:1973

数据来源: Karger