Depersonalization and Mood Changes in Schizophrenia
- 1 September 1963
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 109 (462) , 669-673
- https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.109.462.669
Abstract
It has been suggested in a previous paper (Sedman and Reed, 1963) that depersonalization phenomena were most likely to occur in patients with premorbid insecure personalities during a phase of depressive mood. Schneider (1958), includes under the term Insecure Personalities both Anankasts (obsessionals) and Sensitives. In such individuals there is “… a nagging inner uncertainty under various forms of compensatory or over-compensatory activity, especially where the inferiority feelings are of a physical or social character”. The purpose of this paper is to examine further the suggested linking of depersonalization, insecure personality and mood change in schizophrenia.Keywords
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