Delusional Memories: First-Rank Symptoms?

1991 ◽  
Vol 159 (4) ◽  
pp. 472-474 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alec Buchanan
Keyword(s):  
Present State ◽  
First Rank Symptoms ◽  
State Examination

Delusional memories have an established place in psychiatric phenomenology and use of the term extends to its inclusion in the Present State Examination (Winget al,1974). Not all writers have used the term, however, and present definitions are inconsistent. This paper attempts to clarify the significance of delusional memories for a diagnosis of schizophrenia according to Schneiderian criteria.

The Scottish First Episode Schizophrenia Study: I. Patient Identification and Categorisation

1987 ◽  
Vol 150 (3) ◽  
pp. 331-333 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Examination ◽  
Diagnostic Criteria ◽  
Present State ◽  
First Episode ◽  
Patient Identification ◽  
Abnormal Involuntary Movements ◽  
Neurological Signs ◽  
First Episode Schizophrenia ◽  
First Rank Symptoms ◽  
State Examination

Forty-nine first episode schizophrenics were identified and considered to be representative of the parent schizophrenic population. Patients were rated before treatment with the Present State Examination. Findings are presented with regard to Catego classes, prevalence of first rank symptoms, conformity to ICD diagnoses, Feighner and Research Diagnostic Criteria and presence of a depressive syndrome. Physical examination revealed isolated neurological signs; in addition two neuroleptically naive patients had abnormal involuntary movements.

British Phenomenological and Psychopathological Concepts: A Comparative Review

1982 ◽  
Vol 140 (6) ◽  
pp. 558-565 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Berner ◽  
Bernd Küfferle
Keyword(s):  
Present State ◽  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
Rating Scale ◽  
Statistical Evaluation ◽  
Substantial Contribution ◽  
Comparative Review ◽  
American Schools ◽  
Traditional Structures ◽  
State Examination ◽  
Hamilton Rating Scale

For a foreign observer who has been trained in German and French psychopathology, British psychiatry is very attractive at first glance for a number of reasons. Its eclectic and principally non-theoretical approach (Cooper, 1975), characterized by an open acceptance of foreign concepts and by the tendency to question traditional structures and hypotheses and to test them by means of statistical methods, appears most impressive. The substantial contribution British authors have made toward the development of structured tools in psychopathology, like for instance the Present State Examination or the Hamilton Rating Scale in order to facilitate such a statistical evaluation, which reflects clearly the inheritance of Sir Francis Galton, is also a cause of sincere admiration. The European observer realizes furthermore that the British approach is rooted mainly in continental, especially in German, clinical psychiatry, and is not as heavily influenced by psychodynamic theories as, for instance, the American schools were, at least until recently. This provides him with a comfortable feeling of familiarity and he is not inclined to question certain British tenets until his involvement progresses and he becomes aware of the comparative lack of attention paid by British schools to some of the fundamentals of continental psychopathology.

scholarly journals The nuts and bolts of writing papers

1990 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 254-254
Author(s):  
Ralph Footring
Keyword(s):  
Present State ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
State Examination

Some jargon is useful. Though I invariably place inverted commas around ‘caseness’, just so that everybody knows that I know that it is jargon, I would be a lost man if I diligently replaced it with a statement to the effect that this particular patient has achieved an index of definition of 5 or over on the Present State Examination.

Hysterectomy and Psychiatric Disorder: I. Levels of Psychiatric Morbidity before and after Hysterectomy

1982 ◽  
Vol 140 (4) ◽  
pp. 335-342 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dennis Gath ◽  
Peter Cooper ◽  
Ann Day
Keyword(s):  
General Population ◽  
Psychiatric Disorder ◽  
Social Functioning ◽  
Present State ◽  
Psychiatric Patients ◽  
Psychiatric Morbidity ◽  
Long Duration ◽  
Before And After ◽  
State Examination

SummaryOne hundred and fifty-six women with menorrhagia of benign origin were interviewed before hysterectomy, and re-interviewed six months post-operatively (n = 147), and again 18 months post-operatively (n = 148). Levels of psychiatric morbidity were significantly higher before the operation than after. On the Present State Examination, 58 per cent of patients were psychiatric cases before surgery, as against 29 per cent at the 18-month follow-up. Similar post-operative improvements were found on measures of mood (POMS), and of psychosexual and social functioning. Most of these improvements had occurred within three to six months after the operation. Both before and after hysterectomy, levels of psychiatric morbidity were high by comparison with women in the general population, but lower than in psychiatric patients. The pre-operative psychiatric morbidity had been mainly of long duration.

Psychiatric diagnosis in self-poisoning patients

1979 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 501-507 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Urwin ◽  
J. L. Gibbons
Keyword(s):  
Short Duration ◽  
Present State ◽  
Computer Analysis ◽  
Small Proportion ◽  
Psychiatric Diagnosis ◽  
Depressive Disorders ◽  
Psychiatric Treatment ◽  
Large Group ◽  
Functional Psychosis ◽  
State Examination

SynopsisThe Present State Examination was administered to 539 patients who attended a casualty department after an act of self-poisoning during the course of a year. Computer analysis by means of the Catego program showed that 30% of the patients had insufficient symptoms to be considered as psychiatric ‘cases’. Fewer than 4% had symptoms of functional psychosis. About 60% of the patients were classed as depressed: on several indices this group was less severely ill than a group of depressives receiving psychiatric treatment. It is suggested that psychiatric treatment is essential for only a small proportion of self-poisoning patients. The effectiveness of psychiatric treatment for the large group of patients with depressive disorders of minor severity and probably short duration has still to be evaluated.

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