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Machine Learning Facial Emotion Classifiers in Psychotherapy Research: A Proof-of-Concept Study. Psychopathology (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Martin Steppan,Ronan Zimmermann,Lukas Fürer,Matthew Southward,Julian Koenig,Michael Kaess,Johann Roland Kleinbub,Volker Roth,Klaus Schmeck
BACKGROUND New advances in the field of machine learning make it possible to track facial emotional expression with high resolution, including micro-expressions. These advances have promising applications for psychotherapy research, since manual coding (e.g., the Facial Action Coding System), is time-consuming. PURPOSE We tested whether this technology can reliably identify in-session emotional expression
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Impairments in Cognitive and Emotional Empathy as Markers of General versus Specific Personality Pathology. Psychopathology (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Ludwig Ohse,Johannes Zimmermann,André Kerber,Leonie Kampe,Jil Mohr,Robert Schierz,Michael Rentrop,Isabel Dziobek,Susanne Hörz-Sagstetter
INTRODUCTION The alternative model for personality disorders (AMPD) of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders - 5th edition (DSM-5) considers impairments in empathy a basic feature of personality disorders (PDs). In contrast, the AMPD pathological personality trait model and the categorical DSM-5 Section II PD model associate deficits in empathy to specific forms of personality pathology
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Dissociation and Temporality in Substance Abuse: A Clinical Phenomenological Overview. Psychopathology (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Valerio Ricci,Giuseppe Maina,Giovanni Martinotti
The term "dissociation" encompasses a wide array of symptoms and phenomena, all sharing the common characteristic of involving altered states of consciousness where an individual temporarily loses the sense of continuity of their own identity. In the context of addiction pathology, however, the dissociative paradigm remains a topic of ongoing debate. It fluctuates between the description of individual
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Autism as a Disorder of Affective Empathy. Psychopathology (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-10-18 Tim Schnitzler,Thomas Fuchs
Since the first description by Leo Kanner, individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have been attributed a reduced empathy. However, it has not yet been clarified how empathy is specifically impaired in autism. Typically, scholars distinguish between the affective and the cognitive dimensions of empathy. The latter largely overlaps with the concept of the theory of mind (ToM), according to which
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Reframing Anorexia Nervosa: A Phenomenological Exploration of the Self-Other Relationship with Husserl's Intersubjective Theory. Psychopathology (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-09-26 Junguo Zhang
This paper explores the overlooked contributions of Husserl's Phenomenology of intersubjectivity in understanding anorexia nervosa. It highlights the intricate relationship between the self and others, emphasizing their mutual constitution while acknowledging inherent differences. The distorted body image approach often overlooks this perspective, leading to psychopathological issues in individuals
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Interpretative Phenomenology of Grief following Reproductive Loss: A Narrative Review and Considerations on Improving Support. Psychopathology (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-09-05 Rita Facão,Luís Madeira
The loss of pregnancy through miscarriage or stillbirth is typically an unexpected and highly distressing event for parents. While death in any form may be overwhelming to those bereaved, pregnancy and newborn loss are unique in several ways because they involve the added loss of parental identity and the idealized baby and family. In this study, the authors performed a narrative review of the literature
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Automatic Positive and Negative Emotion Regulation in Adolescents with Major Depressive Disorder. Psychopathology (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Wenhai Zhang,Cancan Zhao,Fanggui Tang,Wenbo Luo
INTRODUCTION Adolescents with major depressive disorder (MDD) exhibit hypoactivity to positive stimuli and hyperactivity to negative stimuli in terms of neural responses. Automatic emotion regulation (AER) activates triple networks (i.e., the central control network, default mode network, and salience network). Based on previous studies, we hypothesized that adolescents with MDD exhibit dissociable
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The Effect of Gender on Identification and Interpretation of Non-Suicidal Self-Injury. Psychopathology (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-08-18 Cate Curtis,Michaela Terry
INTRODUCTION Reported rates of non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) differ by gender but may be under-reported and under-recognised in men. People engaging in NSSI rarely seek professional help without encouragement, so others play a key role in its identification and potential intervention. The current research investigated others' interpretations of NSSI, examining whether gender affects the likelihood
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Mentalizing in Adolescents and Young Adults with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Associations with Age and Attention Problems. Psychopathology (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-08-16 Elena Poznyak,Jessica Lee Samson,Juan Barrios,Halima Rafi,Roland Hasler,Nader Perroud,Martin Debbané
INTRODUCTION Growing, albeit heterogenous evidence questions whether attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is associated with socio-cognitive impairments, especially beyond childhood. This study focuses on mentalizing - the socio-cognitive ability to attribute and reason in terms of mental states. We aimed to characterize mentalizing performance in terms of correct scores and types of errors
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Methylation of the Glucocorticoid Receptor Gene (NR3C1) in Adolescents with a History of Childhood Adversity Engaging in Non-Suicidal Self-Injury. Psychopathology (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-08-02 Nicole Hammann,Michael Kaess,Dan Rujescu,Romuald Brunner,Annette M Hartmann,Corinna Reichl
INTRODUCTION Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) is a large phenomenon among adolescents, and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are a major risk factor in its development. Malfunctioning of the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis has been repeatedly reported for ACE as well as for NSSI. The glucocorticoid receptor (GR) is essential for the correct functioning of the HPA axis, thus alterations
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Circadian Activity Rhythms and Psychopathology in Major Depressive Episodes. Psychopathology (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-07-27 Paola Salvatore,Premananda Indic,Harimandir K Khalsa,Mauricio Tohen,Ross J Baldessarini,Carlo Maggini
BACKGROUND Identifying suicidal risk based on clinical assessment is challenging. Suicidal ideation fluctuates, can be downplayed or denied, and seems stigmatizing if divulged. In contrast, vitality is foundational to subjectivity in being immediately conscious before reflection. Including its assessment may improve detection of suicidal risk compared to relying on suicidal ideation alone. We hypothesized
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Varieties of Religious and Spiritual Struggles by Type of Mental Disorder: A Qualitative Approach. Psychopathology (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-07-05 Joke C van Nieuw Amerongen-Meeuse,Arjan W Braam,Gerlise Westerbroek,Eva Ouwehand,Christa Anbeek,Hanneke Schaap-Jonker
INTRODUCTION Little is known about types of religious/spiritual (R/S) struggles with regard to various diagnostic groups in mental health care. The current qualitative study aims to give an impression of R/S struggles as observed in six diagnostic groups in clinical mental health care. METHODS Inductive thematic content analysis was applied to 34 semi-structured interviews. The interviews were performed
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Injustice and Embitterment: Crucial Stressors in Psychosomatic Patients. Psychopathology (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Michael Linden,Barbara Lieberei
OBJECTIVE "Disorders specifically associated with stress" are receiving increasing attention in clinical practice, research, and modern classification systems of mental disorders. This includes not only reactions to "extremely threatening or horrific events" as it is characteristic for "post-traumatic stress disorders" but also a variety of day-to-day experiences. Examples are experiences of injustice
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Depressive-Like Effects of Foreclosing: A Cross-Sectional Study of Hair Cortisol Concentration. Psychopathology (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-06-16 Maria J Portella,Isabel González-González,Miriam Jubero,Joan Trujols,Víctor Pérez
INTRODUCTION Foreclosing and home eviction have been associated with various negative health outcomes, probably due to exposure to such stressful circumstance, but there is no evidence about foreclosure and home eviction to elicit cortisol responses. METHODS Participants who recently had received a court eviction notice were compared to subjects suffering a depressive disorder and to healthy controls
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The Autism Rating Scale for Schizophrenia - Revised English Version: An Instrument to Characterize Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders Phenotype. Psychopathology (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-06-13 Massimo Ballerini,Silvana Galderisi,Paola Bucci,Armida Mucci,Paul H Lysaker,Giovanni Stanghellini
Dis-sociality (DS) reflects the impairment of social experience in people with schizophrenia; it encompasses both negative features (disorder of attunement, inability to grasp the meaning of social contexts, the vanishing of social shared knowledge) and positive features (a peculiar set of values, ruminations not oriented to reality), reflecting the existential arrangement of people with schizophrenia
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Relationship between Value-Based Behaviors and Scheduled Activities of University Students before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Longitudinal Cross-Lagged Model. Psychopathology (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-06-13 Koki Takagaki,Satoshi Yokoyama
University students are in a phase during which they have various experiences typical in the academic environment and face situations that require adaptability and influence value formation. In the abnormal situation of the COVID-19 pandemic, university students' life rhythms, academic, interpersonal, and financial situations have changed drastically. In those situational cues, the value-based behavior
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The European Portuguese Version of the Brief Negative Symptom Scale. Psychopathology (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-06-05 Henrique Castro Santos,Alexandra Rodrigues,Sara Ferreira,João Malhadas Martins,Tiago Baptista,João Gama Marques,Brian Kirkpatrick,Diana Prata
Negative symptoms reflect a currently much-untreated loss of normal functioning and are frequently found in psychotic disorders. We present the first translation of the Brief Negative Symptom Scale (BNSS) to European Portuguese and evaluate its validity in a sample of Portuguese male patients with a psychotic spectrum disorder. The Portuguese BNSS showed excellent internal consistency, high convergent
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The Body in Question in the Existence of Hysteric Persons: A Phenomenological Perspective Psychopathology (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-04-28 Cecilia Maria Esposito, Giovanni Stanghellini
The concept of hysteria, although apparently surpassed by contemporary nosographic classifications, continues to be talked about. Following Charbonneau’s attempt to de-feminize and de-sexualize hysteria, clinical phenomenology can offer a perspective which, freed from stigma and prejudices through the suspension of judgement, allows us to understand hysteria not as a diagnostic category but as an existential
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Examining Cognitive Biases Uniquely Associated with Schizotypy Psychopathology (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-04-24 Aqsa Zahid, Michael W. Best
Introduction: Individuals with schizotypy can experience a number of cognitive biases that may increase their risk in developing schizophrenia-spectrum psychopathology. However, cognitive biases are also present in mood and anxiety disorders, and it is currently unclear which biases are specific to schizotypy and which may be a result of comorbid depression and/or anxiety. Methods: 462 participants
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Comparison of Social-Evaluative Anxiety and Theory of Mind Functions in Social Anxiety Disorder, Schizophrenia, and Healthy Controls Psychopathology (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-04-14 Gorkem Yilmaz, Ejder Akgun Yildirim, Abdulkadir Sencer Tabakcı
Introduction: Despite the similarities in poor social competence and clinical manifestations of poor social behavior, no study has compared the theory of mind performance between social anxiety disorder (SAD) and schizophrenia, considering the effect of social-evaluative anxiety and neurocognitive functions. In our study, we aimed to compare the theory of mind functions and social-evaluative anxiety
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Seizures as a Struggle between Life and Death: An Existential Approach to the Psychosocial Impact of Seizures in Candidates for Epilepsy Surgery Psychopathology (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-03-16
Introduction: Mental health comorbidities such as depression and anxiety are common in epilepsy, especially among people with pharmacoresistant epilepsy who are candidates for epilepsy surgery. The Psychology Task Force of the International League Against Epilepsy advised that psychological interventions should be integrated into comprehensive epilepsy care. Methods: To better understand the psychological
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Homo dissipans: Excess and Expenditure as Keys for Understanding the Borderline Condition? Psychopathology (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-03-08 Giovanni Stanghellini
This paper sheds light on some aspects of what contemporary clinical theory calls “borderline” condition providing a description of a key figure of late-modern culture that I will call Homo dissipans (from Latin dissipatio, -onis = scattering, dispersion). Homo dissipans is the opposite of Homo œconomicus, the form that “narcissism” takes on in contemporary “achievement society,” solely concerned with
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Behavioral Apophenia and Dimensions of Psychoticism in Adolescents with and without Mood Disorders Psychopathology (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-03-08 Michael Reinke, Julia M. Longenecker, Lamisa Chowdhury, Michelle Thai, Erin Begnel, Nathan Horek, Cheryl Olman, Kathryn R. Cullen, Bonnie Klimes-Dougan
Apophenia is the tendency to falsely detect meaningful relationships and may indicate susceptibility to more extreme expressions on the psychotic spectrum. This pilot investigated the fragmented ambiguous object task (FAOT), a new measure designed to assess apophenia behaviorally in a sample of adolescents with and without mood disorders using an image recognition task. Our primary hypothesis was that
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The Self-Evaluation of Negative Symptoms in Differentiating Deficit Schizophrenia: The Comparison of Sensitivity and Specificity with Other Tools Psychopathology (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-03-06 Jerzy Samochowiec, Marcin Jabłoński, Piotr Plichta, Patryk Piotrowski, Bartłomiej Stańczykiewicz, Tomasz Bielawski, Błażej Misiak
Introduction: Psychometric properties of the Self-evaluation of Negative Symptoms (SNS) in subjects with the deficit subtype of schizophrenia (SCZ-D) have not been investigated so far. This study had the following aims: (1) to assess psychometric properties of SNS in subjects with SCZ-D and (2) to explore the usefulness of SNS, in comparison with other clinical characteristics, in screening for SCZ-D
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Peripheral Inflammatory Markers in Subtypes and Core Features of Depression: A Systematized Review Psychopathology (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-02-22
Introduction: The aim of this work was to summarize relationships between two subtypes of major depressive disorder (melancholic and atypical) and four core features of depression that reflect the domains identified consistently in previous studies of major depressive disorder endophenotypes (exaggerated reactivity to negative information, altered reward processing, cognitive control deficits, and
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The Significance of Relationships in Developmental Psychopathology and Youth Mental Health Psychopathology (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-02-14 Leonie Fleck, Anna Fuchs, Michael Kaess
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Forcing an Effortless Stance: The Lived Body in Social Anxiety Disorder Psychopathology (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-02-14 Martin Vestergaard Kristiansen
Introduction: The fear of scrutiny central in social anxiety disorder (SAD) points to a problem of the interpersonally perceivable body. Whereas the predominant cognitive-behavioral (CBT) account of the disorder understands this as a problem of excessive self-focused attention, the phenomenological literature reveals it as a sign of a fundamental transformation of body experience. The lived body absent
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Sensed Presence, Attenuated Psychosis, and Transliminality: At the Threshold of Consciousness Psychopathology (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-02-08 Cherise Rosen, Sohee Park, Tatiana Baxter, Michele Tufano, Anne Giersch
Introduction: The experience of “sensed presence” or “felt presence” in the absence of “other” has been described as a complex multimodal experience to which meaning is given. Sensed presence (SenP) is a transdiagnostic experience that exists along a continuum that can appear during isolation, spirit quests, exposure to extreme elements, bereavement, anxiety, and psychosis. Given the prevalence and
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Perseverative Cognition and Psychotic-Like Experiences in Young Adults: A Cross-Lagged Panel Model Psychopathology (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-02-02 Andrea Ballesio, Andrea Zagaria, Caterina Lombardo
Psychotic-like experiences (PLEs), including persecutory ideation, bizarre experiences, and perceptual abnormalities, are considered risk factors for psychotic disorders and mental distress in the general population. The cognitive-affective mechanisms associated with PLEs remain under-investigated. We aimed to longitudinally assess the reciprocal associations between perseverative cognition (PC), an
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Understanding University Students during COVID-19: A Longitudinal Mixed-Methods Analysis of Their Experiences of Online Learning, Mental Health, Academic Engagement, and Academic Self-Efficacy Psychopathology (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-02-02 Morgan Nicholson, Joanne M. Bennett, Oscar Modesto, Rachael Gould
Introduction: Research has consistently demonstrated that the COVID-19 pandemic, and resulting sudden shift to online learning (OL), had detrimental impacts on the motivation and mental health of university students. To date however this research has been cross-sectional and quantitative. Method: This study employed a mixed-methods design to examine the experiences of students at a large national Australian
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A Dutch Pre-DSM Attempt at Psychiatric Classification Psychopathology (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-01-24 Herman N. Sno
Considering the growing sense of ambivalence about the merits of the DSM, the time seems right for the re-evaluation of nosological attempts and efforts in the pre-DSM era. One example of these attempts is the CHAM system developed by the Dutch psychiatrist R.M. Silbermann (1932–1976). This system is intended as a simple classification with 20 “psychiatric states,” which are classified based on the
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The Lived Experiences of Family Members and Carers of People with Psychosis: A Bottom-Up Review Co-Written by Experts by Experience and Academics Psychopathology (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-01-23
Informal caregivers of individuals affected by psychotic disorder can play a key role in the recovery process. However, little research has been conducted on the lived experiences of carers and family members. We conducted a bottom-up (from lived experience to theory) review of first-person accounts, co-written between academics and experts by experience, to identify key experiential themes. First-person
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Acute Alcoholic Hallucinosis: A Review Psychopathology (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-01-19
Acute alcoholic hallucinosis is a psychotic disorder characterized by a predominance of auditory hallucinations with delusions and affective symptoms in the clinical picture. Classically, it develops as part of the alcohol withdrawal syndrome. The prevalence of acute alcoholic hallucinosis ranks second among alcohol-related psychoses after alcohol delirium. The study aimed to systematize the scientific
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Brief Report: Protective or Risk Factor? Aftermath Effects of Perceived Social Support on Embitterment during the COVID-19 Pandemic Psychopathology (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-01-19 Dennis Koroma, Hansjörg Znoj, Leila M. Soravia
There are indications for a raise in embitterment during the COVID-19 pandemic. As embitterment is related to felt social exclusion, pessimism, and a proneness toward COVID-19-related conspiracy beliefs, embitterment may be a key factor to consider in the current pandemic. However, perceived social support (PSS), which is associated with hope during the COVID-19 pandemic could serve as an important
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Impact of Maternal-Newborn Separation in Italian Women with Suspected COVID-19 Infection on Psychopathological Symptoms and Quality of Interactions during Breastfeeding Psychopathology (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-01-04 Silvia Cimino, Luca Cerniglia
Introduction: Before the COVID-19 pandemic, proximity between mothers and their newborn infants was at the core of sanitary guidelines. With the aim of stopping the virus transmission from mothers to infants and possible physical dangers due to the infection, some hospitals discouraged or even prohibited skin-to-skin contact and breastfeeding. Method: This study recruited 180 dyads in private and public
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Changes in Eating Attitudes and Risk for Developing Disordered Eating Behaviors in College Students with Subthreshold Eating Disorders: A Cohort Study Psychopathology (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2022-12-12 Yoshie Miyake, Yuri Okamoto, Koki Takagaki, Masaharu Yoshihara
Introduction: The number of young adults with eating disorders or subthreshold eating disorders has increased recently. Although disordered eating behaviors persist once they appear, there have been relatively few studies on factors that might cause disordered eating behaviors. The purpose of this study was to investigate how the eating attitudes of young adults change over time and the risk factors
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Do Proximal Risk Factors Mediate the Impact of Affect on Symptoms of Generalized Anxiety Disorder and Major Depressive Disorder? An Extension of the Hierarchical Model of Cognitive Vulnerability Psychopathology (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2022-12-08 Brandon Koscinski, Nicholas P. Allan
Background: Major depressive disorder (MDD) and generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) are among the most prevalent forms of psychopathology. The hierarchical model of cognitive vulnerability proposes that higher order risk factors explain co-occurrence among internalizing disorders, whereas lower order risk factors explain discordance. Methods: Participants (N = 646; mean age = 38.50, SD = 10.00; 49.2%
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Personality Disorder in Adolescent Patients with Anorexia Nervosa Psychopathology (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2022-11-30 Clarissa Laczkovics, Klara Czernin, Jessica Carlitscheck, Michael Zeiler, Pauline Schlund, Heidrun Lioba Wunram, Gerd Lehmkuhl, Maya Krischer
Objective: Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a highly debilitating disease which frequently results in chronification and often originates in adolescence. Personality traits have been associated with the onset and maintenance of AN; moreover, study results indicated a worse treatment outcome in patients with AN and comorbid personality disorder (PD). However, research on PD in adolescent AN is scarce. Methods:
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“As If There Are Two of Us”: The Battle of Borderline Personality Disorder Diagnosis in Lived Time Psychopathology (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2022-11-22 Anna Sterna, Marcin Moskalewicz
Background: Although the experience of reception of borderline personality disorder (BPD) diagnosis was previously researched, the process of mental adjustment to this diagnosis remains both empirically and theoretically unexplored. Theoretical concepts describing the structure of lived time in borderline patients, which underlies adjustment to diagnosis, living with the diagnosis, and recovery from
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Acknowledgement to Reviewers Psychopathology (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2022-11-09
Psychopathology 2022;55:382
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Contents Vol. 55, No. 6, 2022 Psychopathology (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2022-11-09
Psychopathology 2022;55:I–VI
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Splitting the Unity of Bodily Self: Toward a Comprehensive Review of Phenomenology and Psychopathology of Heautoscopy Psychopathology (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2022-11-04 Joanna Szczotka, Michał Wierzchoń
Background: Heautoscopy refers to a pathological experience of visual reduplication of one’s body with an ambiguous sense of self-location and a disturbing sensation of owning the illusory body. It has been recognized to occur in the course of strikingly diverse psychiatric and neurological disorders, such as schizophrenia, space-occupying lesions, frequently of the temporal or parietal lobes, migraine
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Gaming Disorder and Psychotic Disorders: A Scoping Review Psychopathology (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2022-11-01 Maxime Huot-Lavoie, Mina Gabriel-Courval, Laurent Béchard, Olivier Corbeil, Sébastien Brodeur, Charles Massé, Émilien Fournier, Anne Marie Essiambre, Elizabeth Anderson, Audrey Cayouette, Isabelle Giroux, Yasser Khazaal, Marie-France Demers, Marc-André Roy
Background: There is a growing interest in understanding the impact of video games in the clinical field, given that their excessive use could be associated with health issues. Particularly, gaming disorder (GD) is considered as an addictive behavioral disorder. Clinicians widely recognize the comorbidity of gaming and psychotic disorders (PDs). Furthermore, association between addictive (i.e., substance
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Toward a Phenomenological Assessment of Values in Alcohol Misuse Psychopathology (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2022-10-25 Maria Julia Francischetto Ribeiro Soares, Guilherme Messas
Introduction: Alcohol misuse emerges from a complex range of psychopathological experiences and personal and cultural values. For this reason, understanding the reasons why a person seeks treatment is crucial to effective care. This study aimed to identify the values which guide the decision-making process of persons seeking voluntary hospitalization for treatment for alcohol misuse, as well as the
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Neurodevelopmental Antecedents and Sensory Phenomena in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: A Systematic Review Supporting a Phenomenological-Developmental Model Psychopathology (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2022-10-25 Michele Poletti, Eva Gebhardt, Lorenzo Pelizza, Antonio Preti, Andrea Raballo
Background: The majority of models on obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) endorse a top-down perspective on the cognitive mechanisms underlying OCD functioning and maintenance, whereas a bottom-up perspective is rarely pursued. Objectives: The aim of the study was to review the empirical literature on sensory phenomena (SP) and neurodevelopmental antecedents of OCD, which could support the conceptualization
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Treatment Motivation and Burden of Stress among Parents of Adolescents with Non-Suicidal Self-Injury Presenting to a Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Emergency Service Psychopathology (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2022-10-04 Stephanie Kandsperger, Joseph Madurkay, Daniel Schleicher, Alexandra Otto, Angelika Ecker, Romuald Brunner, Irina Jarvers
Introduction: The successful treatment of adolescents almost always requires parents’ involvement in the treatment process. Thus, parental involvement will impact further treatment, especially concerning the acute management of self-harming behavior of their children. Parental burden or low parental motivation for treatment can significantly affect the success of the intervention. Therefore, this study
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Responsiveness to Direct Verbal Suggestions and Dissociation Independently Predict Symptoms Associated with Environmental Factors Psychopathology (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2022-10-04 Madeline V. Stein, Rebecca Holt, Lillian Wieder, Devin B. Terhune
Symptoms associated with environmental factors (SAEF; also known as idiopathic environmental intolerance) include the presentation of various common symptoms that are causally attributed to normally benign environmental triggers, such as electromagnetic fields, odors, and chemicals. SAEF are typically conceptualized as psychogenic in origin, and multiple models have proposed that dissociation and responsiveness
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The Human Spectrum: A Phenomenological Enquiry within Neurodiversity Psychopathology (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2022-09-30 Dinah Murray, Damian Milton, Jonathan Green, Jo Bervoets
Introduction: Autism has typically been characterized by its external manifestations rather than experienced phenomenology, with consequent impacts on both research and practice. There have recently been increasing calls for more phenomenological enquiry in autism, but little actual work reported. Method: A shared participatory phenomenological self-investigation was conducted, by the four authors
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Personal Identity and Narrativity in Borderline Personality Disorder: A Phenomenological Reconfiguration Psychopathology (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2022-09-22 Cassandre Bois, István Fazakas, Juliette Salles, Tudi Gozé
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a complex condition marked by heterogeneity. People with BPD have a profusion of symptoms spread across various levels of lived experience, such as identity, affectivity, and interpersonal relationships. Researchers and clinicians have often resorted to the structuring concept of Self to organize the fragmentation of their experience at the identity level. Notably
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Delusional Misidentification Syndromes in Postpartum Psychosis: A Systematic Review Psychopathology (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2022-09-16 Gabriella Lewis, Lucy Blake, Gertrude Seneviratne
Introduction: Delusional misidentification syndromes (DMS) are a group of psychopathological experiences occurring in psychosis, involving the misidentification of a person or place. DMS are often accompanied by hostility towards the object of delusional misidentification. This is of a particular concern in perinatal mental illness due to the potential disruption of the mother-infant bond, and risk
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Prevalence and Correlates of Embitterment in a National Representative Sample Psychopathology (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2022-09-12 Beate Muschalla
Introduction: Embitterment may occur after stressful but normal life events, such as job loss, divorce, or unjust events. Embitterment is a normal affect, but it may become clinically relevant in case it becomes very strong and long-lasting, and impairs daily functioning. Objective: Until now, no epidemiological data on the frequency of high embitterment in the general population have been available
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The Development and Validation of the First German Open Scale of Social Information Processing Psychopathology (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2022-08-31 Sophie Charlotte Niestroj, Sarah Steden, Maren Boecker, Edward Stuart Brodkin, Kerstin Konrad
Introduction: This study introduces the first German Open Scale of Social Information Processing (GOSSIP) and evaluates its psychometric properties. Even though social information processing (SIP) and its important role in developmental psychopathology is a rising field of interest, model-based standardized assessment tools are still scarce. Methods: GOSSIP was developed to assess SI processes in boys
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Challenging the Sensitive Window Hypothesis: Timing Effects of Maternal Depressive Symptoms on the Intergenerational Transmission of Maltreatment and Psychopathology in the Next Generation Psychopathology (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2022-08-02 Denise Dittmann, Vanessa Reindl, Beate Herpertz-Dahlmann, Brigitte Dahmen, Christine Firk, Christoph Borzikowsky, Kerstin Konrad
Objective: The current study explored the role of maternal depressive symptoms in the intergenerational transmission of childhood maltreatment and developmental psychopathology. Based on the sensitive window hypothesis, the effects of earlier versus later maternal depression symptoms on child development were analysed. Method: Ninety-nine mother-child dyads, 65% of which had high-risk teenage mothers
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First-Episode Psychosis and Centrality in the Work of Psychiatrist Henri Grivois: A Dialog with Phenomenological Psychopathology Psychopathology (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2022-07-29 Sarah Troubé
The article traces the hypotheses of the contemporary French psychiatrist Henri Grivois, concerning what he calls nascent psychosis. In a perspective close to descriptive phenomenology, Grivois tries to identify the alteration of subjective experience specific to the first moments of a psychosis. He thus describes the experiences of concernment and centrality as consisting in a disruption of the tacit
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How to Improve Training in Descriptive Psychopathology for Psychiatry Residents: A Delphi Study Psychopathology (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2022-07-29 Jon-Inaki Etxeandia-Pradera, Jon Landeta, Jose Gonzalez-Such, Eduardo-Jesus Aguilar
Purpose: Descriptive psychopathology (DP) is the language of psychiatry and is dedicated to the description of mental symptoms. Despite its core importance, a systematic review identified a series of shortcomings in its training. This Delphi study seeks to provide guidance for better didactic and clinical training in DP. Method: The authors used the Delphi method in order to gather, pool, and optimize
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The Mediating Role of Health-Promoting Behaviors on the Association between Symptom Severity and Quality of Life among Chinese Individuals with Mental Illness: A Cross-Sectional Study Psychopathology (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2022-07-28 Phoenix K.H. Mo, Georgina Y.K. So, Zhihui Lu, Winnie W.S. Mak
Introduction: Research has shown that people with mental illnesses (PMI) are found to show poorer lifestyle than the general population. Yet, the effect of their psychiatric symptoms in the association between gender difference, health-promoting behaviors, and quality of life have received little attention. The present study examined the association between symptom severity, health-promoting behaviors
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Decomposition: Partition as an Escape from Decay – A Gestalt of the Obsessive Life-World Psychopathology (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2022-07-21 Cecilia Maria Esposito, Stefano Goretti
According to phenomenological literature, the life-world of the obsessive subject is characterized by its claustrophobic closure, the attempt to stop the flow of time, and the inability to accept the formlessness hidden behind the form. The obsessive obstinately tries to build defences against what he cannot tolerate of reality and this effort causes loss of spontaneity in the pre-reflective dimension