摘要:

The term ‘short test’ (Kurztest) can signify a number of diverse concepts. An attempt was made to arrange these concepts systematically. This may have practical significance, as short tests in psychopathology assume growing importance and the terminology for purposes of communication will become more differentiated and precise. Short tests need not be of lower quality than normal procedures. On the contrary, particularly in the area of psychopathology, short tests can have a higher validity and reliability.

ISSN:0254-4962    

DOI:10.1159/000283629

出版商:S. Karger AG    

年代:1975

数据来源: Karger

摘要:

Eight acute schizophrenics were examined individually and in groups as to their congruence of judgement and as to their accuracy in estimations in response to various visual stimuli; they were compared in these respects with neurotics. The analysis of variance of the power of judgement showed: (a) there was no difference in the two groups of patients beyond what could be expected by chance alone, and (b) the congruence of judgement was the same in both groups. The analysis of variance of the accuracy in estimations showed that with increasing numbers of stimuli in the visual field the schizophrenics became less and less precise in their estimates. It was demonstrated under what conditions social-psychological findings can be applied to schizophrenic psychoses.

ISSN:0254-4962    

DOI:10.1159/000283630

出版商:S. Karger AG    

年代:1975

数据来源: Karger

摘要:

A melancholic-schizophrenic mixed psychosis is described in a 64-year-old man. It was diagnosed as a ‘rigid (or catatonic) involutional depression’ (Medow, 1922), showing besides hypochondriacal, nihilistic and micromanic delusions, a transient delusional syndrome of ‘Delirium metabolicum’ (Mendel, 1902), with zo-anthropy. An attempt was made to avoid the differential diagnostic classification of that clinical picture into involutional melancholia (296.0) and paranoid psychosis of involutional age (197.1) which, as in so many psychoses of the older age groups, is quite inadequate. Thus the psychopathological phenomena of the psychosis, which after all are the only reliable data, were attributed on the one hand to the senile deterioration and slight but demonstrable arteriosclerosis of the brain, and on the other hand, to the conspicuous premorbid characteristics which correspond to an anankastic psychopathy with a depressive-inadequate basic mood. It was considered as likely that the Delirium metabolicum represented an exogenous (organic) psychotic syndrome, and that the precipitation of the psychosis as well as its development into an enfeebled endstate was due to an organic brain lesion, while the catatoniformpsychomotor phenomena and the melancholic stupor were crystalisations of traits in the premorbid personality.

ISSN:0254-4962    

DOI:10.1159/000283631

出版商:S. Karger AG    

年代:1975

数据来源: Karger

摘要:

Method. Questionnaire method with reconstruction of the serious incidents by interview and documents. Results. 253 members of staff remembered 626 aggressive acts which happened to them in the course of a year. Slight acts were caused more often by women than by men, and were directed more frequently against the junior than the senior staff – contrasting in both points with the serious acts. One in every four qualified nurses over the age of 50 shows today a verifiable physical defect resulting from an aggressive act by a patient at one time or another. The clinical-psychological and therapeutic background and consequences of aggressive incidences are briefly presented.

ISSN:0254-4962    

DOI:10.1159/000283632

出版商:S. Karger AG    

年代:1975

数据来源: Karger

摘要:

A case history of a prolonged ritalin addiction (18 years) is given, describing the symptoms and the diagnostic categorisation. Because of the remarkable, somewhat atypical withdrawal symptoms, it is suggested to conceive these withdrawal symptoms as an expression of a ‘reversal of effect on withdrawal in the sense of a continuing, independent manifestation of counter regulatory, protective and specific mechanisms.

ISSN:0254-4962    

DOI:10.1159/000283633

出版商:S. Karger AG    

年代:1975

数据来源: Karger

摘要:

Serial EEG examinations (an average of three recordings in 14 weeks) are reported from adolescent inpatients (19 in number) who had been weaned of multiple drug abuse of an average duration of 2 years. At first examination seven had a normal EEG, 11 had a moderately abnormal EEG, and one had a markedly abnormal one. At final examination 13 had a normal EEG, five had a moderately abnormal EEG and three had definitely abnormal EEGs. The majority of the patients showed a decrease (significant at the 5 % level), others an increase in EEG abnormalities. The relationship between the EEG changes in the course of the series on the one hand and the previous drug abuses is discussed.

ISSN:0254-4962    

DOI:10.1159/000283634

出版商:S. Karger AG    

年代:1975

数据来源: Karger

ISSN:0254-4962    

DOI:10.1159/000283635

出版商:S. Karger AG    

年代:1975

数据来源: Karger