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Der Sechs-Faktoren-Test zur Erfassung der Persönlichkeit in der klinischen Praxis und Forschung
Der Sechs-Faktoren-Test (SFT) ist ein Persönlichkeitsfragebogen zur Erfassung der „Big Five“ (Neurotizismus, Extraversion, Gewissenhaftigkeit, Aggressivität, Offenheit für Erfahrung) und Frömmigkeit bei psych...
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Personality and Affective Disorders
This chapter examines the relationship between personality and affective disorders, the latter as described in ICD-10 (F30–39) (WHO 1992). Anxiety disorders will only be discussed in relation to their comorbid...
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Variants of premorbid personality and personality disorder: a taxonomic model of their relationships
From a biographical analysis of approximately 500 case records of patients with various kinds of mental state (in particular mood, anxiety and schizophrenic) disorders, a typology of premorbid personality var...
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Persönlichkeit und affektive Störungen
In diesem Kapitel werden die Beziehungen von Persönlichkeit und affektiven Störungen im Sinne der Kategorie F3 der ICD-10 (Dilling et al. 1991) besprochen. Auf Angsterkrankungen wird deshalb nur im Zusammenhan...
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An operationalized procedure for the recognition of premorbid personality types in biographical case notes on psychiatric patients
A method for the assessment of six premorbid personality types from biographical data in psychiatric case histories is described. Trained raters have to fill in a list comprising 106 items as descriptors of a ...
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Periodic Phenomena in Affective Illness with Special Reference to Annual Cycles
Periodic phenomena, i.e., rhythms consisting of regular cycles, can be observed in nature at various frequencies, from the atomic to the cosmic level. Such phenomena in living organisms form the objects of chr...
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Der „Typus manicus“ — eine Variante der Zyklothymie?
Der „Typus manicus“ (v. Zerssen 1977 a/b, 1980, 1982, 1988) wurde als „Gegenstück“ zum „Typus melancholicus“ (Tellenbach 1961) konzipiert. Auf deskriptivem Niveau entspricht er der hypomanischen Variante des z...
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A case history analysis of the “manic type” and the “melancholic type” of premorbid personality in affectively ill patients
The use of case histories in examining the premorbid personality of affectively ill patients is especially useful in the case of patients with a predominantly manic course of the disorder, because this kind of...
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The Predictive Value of Grou** Schizoaffective Psychoses Together with Affective Psychoses: Jaspers’ Hierarchical Rule Revised
It is inherent in the nature of mental disorders that a clear grou** according to distinct entities is not possible (see von Zerssen 1986a). This problem is particularly prominent in the area of personality ...
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Circadian Rhythm Disturbances in Affective Disorders: Facts and Fictions
The cycling nature of affective disorders has put these psychopathological conditions into the focus of medical chronobiology. However, our knowledge is still rather limited in this respect, and too often casu...
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The Munich personality test (MPT) — a short questionnaire for self-rating and relatives' rating of personality traits: Formal properties and clinical potential
The Munich Personality Test (MPT) is a brief questionnaire for the assessment of six personality dimensions proper (Extraversion, Neuroticism, Frustration Tolerance, Rigidity, Isolation Tendency, Esoteric Tend...
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Verlauf schizophrener Psychosen im Vergleich zu anderen endogenen Psychosen sowie Prädiktionsmöglichkeiten auf der Basis von Schizophrenie-Prognose-Skalen und operationalisierter Schizophreniekonzepte (RDC, DSM III)
Zum Verlauf und zur Prognostik schizophrener Erkrankungen wurden zahlreiche Untersuchungen durchgeführt (vgl. dazu die Literaturübersicht in Möller u. von Zerssen 1986). Die älteren Verlaufsuntersuchungen bezi...
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Diurnal variation of mood and the cortisol rhythm in depression and normal states of mind
A large scale chronobiological investigation was undertaken in 20 drug-free psychiatric inpatients displaying RDC major depression (endogenous subtype) in comparison to 10 healthy control subjects and 10 of th...
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Evaluation Research on Psychotherapy in the Federal Republic of Germany
This is a brief survey of evaluation research on psychotherapy performed on psychiatric patients in the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) after World War II, stressing work that has been published in German bo...
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Clinical Self-Rating Scales (CSRS) of the Munich Psychiatric Information System (PSYCHIS München)
In order to assess the present mental state of patients at admission to and discharge from a psychiatric hospital and to record changes in their general mood state during hospitalization or within special rese...
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The Role of the Hypothalamus-Pituitary-Adrenocortical System in Depression
An increased activity of the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenocortical system (HPAS) during episodes of depression has been reported by several investigators since the middle of the 1950s (Bryson and Martin 1954; ...
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Diagnostik von Depression und Angst mit standardisierten Beurteilungsverfahren
In der klinischen Diagnostik spielen objektive Leistungstests sowie Formen der systematischen Verhaltensbeobachtung zur Erfassung von Angst oder depressiver Symptomatik keine große Rolle. Statt dessen haben si...
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Neuroendocrinological Findings in Depression Compared with Findings in Malnutrition, Cushing’s Syndrome and Emotional Stress
In the last 20 years there have been extensive publications on neuroendocrine abnormalities in depressive disorders. In recent years the main interest has focused on the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal system an...
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The Use of Valproate and Oxcarbazepine in Affective Disorders
Lithium prophylaxis which, undoubtedly, represents a great breakthrough in the pharmacopsychiatry of affective disorders contains two disadvantages:
1st There is a sizable numb...
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Strauss-Carpenter-Skala: Überprüfung ihres prognostischen wertes für das 5-jahres-„outcome” schizophrener patienten
An adequate prognosis of schizophrenic psychoses cannot be made on the basis of single variables. Therefore prognostic scales combining prognostically relevant items should be tried. The prognostic value of th...
