摘要:

Using 50 case histories, an attempt is made to clarify the nosographic and clinical validity of fulminating catatonia as an entity amongst the psychoses. Four groups could be established: fulminating catatonia without organic disease; somatic diseases with fulminating catatonia; catatonic excitement states with an intercurrent organic process, and unclassifiable fulminating catatonia. On the basis of this analysis the syndrome cannot be regarded as possessing the characteristics of a special psychosis. Rather it seems more appropriate to regard fulminating catatonia as a nonspecific symptom complex induced by a multilayered causation.

ISSN:0254-4962    

DOI:10.1159/000283578

出版商:S. Karger AG    

年代:1974

数据来源: Karger

摘要:

Systematic presentation of psychopathological syndromes in epilepsy makes evident that the preoccupation with these phenomena is important to clarify essential problems in general psychiatry. There is a division into reversible and irreversible psycho-pathological syndromes. The different complexes of symptoms can nevertheless overlap. There is no nosologic specificity of psychopathological phenomena in epilepsy, which corresponds to general psychiatric experience. The division presented is to be understood as a coordinate system. The current state of development of pathological cerebral dysfunctions in an epileptic person is thus to be recorded in its course on the strength of psychopathological effects.

ISSN:0254-4962    

DOI:10.1159/000283579

出版商:S. Karger AG    

年代:1974

数据来源: Karger

摘要:

After a brief description of the functions and limitations of psychiatric registers the automated data collection system in use at the Psychiatric University Clinic of Verona is presented. The results of the periodic monitoring of the first 3 years of activity of this institution are shortly reported.

ISSN:0254-4962    

DOI:10.1159/000283580

出版商:S. Karger AG    

年代:1974

数据来源: Karger

摘要:

Thirty-two patients with neurotic, particularly polyphobic, disorders were polygraphically investigated (as regards their EEG, heart rate, respiratory rate, skin resistance and blinking rate) while at rest and while exposed either to nonspecific or to patient-specific verbal stimulation. The psychophysical values thus obtained were compared with data obtained from a list of psychic as well as autonomic symptoms. The conventional diagnostic categories of the neuroses did not correspond to any typical physiological patterns; but some such patterns do appear to be linked to certain abnormal affective states.

ISSN:0254-4962    

DOI:10.1159/000283581

出版商:S. Karger AG    

年代:1974

数据来源: Karger

摘要:

With the help of an extensive self description written over a short period during the initial stages of a schizophrenic illness, a reconstruction could be made of the development of the psychosis as well as of a so-called ‘typical’ schizophrenic suicidal act. An attempt was made to differentiate the illness from ‘mediumistic psychoses’ as described by Bender (1972). The development towards the suicide, the passage through the characteristic stages and the establishment of the presuicidal syndrome were demonstrated. We believe that this case can contribute to a better psychopathological understanding of the suicidal tendency which builds up gradually at the beginning of a schizophrenic psychosis. The suicidal behavior on the other hand which often breaks through suddenly in advanced processes does require further detailed investigations.

ISSN:0254-4962    

DOI:10.1159/000283582

出版商:S. Karger AG    

年代:1974

数据来源: Karger

摘要:

Only some of the main symptoms of cyclothymic depression can be considered as autochthonic. The syndrome which usually constitutes the clinical picture of cyclothymia, and determines its transformation in the course of time, is the result of the patient’s coping patterns with the impairments caused by the illness and the modifications of the expectations of those with whom they interact. At the beginning, both sides try to keep the behavioral nonconformity below the level of social perception. Later on, the environment reacts to the behavioral disorder of the patient, branding him as mentally ill, and finally, the patient finds in his depressive delusions a new pseudo-identity, which allows him through his delusionally newly adopted role to create new interactional relationships, and in this way to achieve a partial come back to social life.

ISSN:0254-4962    

DOI:10.1159/000283583

出版商:S. Karger AG    

年代:1974

数据来源: Karger