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Correlates of coping styles in psychotic illness -- An extension studyJiri Modestin
University of Zurich, Department of Psychiatry Burghölzli Hospital, Lenggstrasse 31, CH 8032 Zurich, Switzerland
Psychiatry Res 168:50-6. 2009..In contrast, both the degree of depression and personality characteristics measured do not seem to play an important role with regard to the prevailing coping/recovery style of integration and sealing over...
Study on alexithymia in adult non-patientsJiri Modestin
Psychiatric University Hospital Zurich, Lenggstrasse 31, CH 8029 Zurich, Switzerland
J Psychosom Res 56:707-9. 2004..We tested the purported complex relationships between alexithymia and somatization, depression, borderline pathology and general health...
Correlates of coping styles in psychotic illnessJ Modestin
Department of Clinical Psychiatry, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Psychopathology 37:175-80. 2004..We studied a series of potential correlates of these coping styles...
Criminality in men with major mental disorder with and without comorbid substance abuseJiri Modestin
University of Zurich, Department of Psychiatry, Burghölzli Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland
Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 59:25-9. 2005..Men with major mental disorder have an increased probability of becoming criminal even when there is no comorbid substance abuse...
Different traumatic experiences are associated with different pathologiesJiri Modestin
Department of Psychiatry Burghölzli Hospital, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Psychiatr Q 76:19-32. 2005..Most of these individual relationships were reported in the literature, based on results obtained in different clinical samples. Our results were won in a sample of young non-patients controlling for overlap between pathologies...
Clozapine diminishes suicidal behavior: a retrospective evaluation of clinical recordsJiri Modestin
Division of Clinical Psychiatry, Psychiatric University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
J Clin Psychiatry 66:534-8. 2005..To test the antisuicidal effect of clozapine, taking into consideration some potentially confounding variables...
Two types of classification for male opioid dependence: identification of an opioid addict with depressive featuresJ Modestin
University of Zurich, Department of Psychiatry, Burghölzli Hospital, Lenggstrasse 31, 8029, Zurich, Switzerland
Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 255:419-27. 2005..We tested the hypothesis that the type I and II classification, well established in male alcoholism, could also be relevant in a population of male opioid addicts...
A comparative study on dual patients with affective disorderJiri Modestin
Department of Psychiatry, Burghölzli Hospital, University of Zurich, Lenggstrasse 31, CH 8032 Zurich, Switzerland
J Affect Disord 102:109-14. 2007..The main purpose of the study was to investigate whether there are differences between dual patients with affective disorders regarding the different kinds of substances abused - a topic which has hardly been dealt with in the literature...
Schizoidia in schizophrenia spectrum and personality disorders: role of dissociationJiri Modestin
Department of Psychiatry, Burghölzli Hospital, University of Zurich, Lenggstrasse 31, CH 8032 Zurich, Switzerland
Psychiatry Res 153:111-8. 2007..The purported relationship between dissociation and schizoidia could not be confirmed; the existence of schizophrenia-inherent dissociation appears questionable...
Evolution of neuroleptic-induced extrapyramidal syndromes under long-term neuroleptic treatmentJiri Modestin
University of Zurich, Department of Psychiatry, Burghölzli Hospital, Lenggstrasse 31, CH 8032 Zurich, Switzerland
Schizophr Res 100:97-107. 2008..The long-term evolution of neuroleptic-induced extrapyramidal syndromes (EPS) of Parkinsonism, akathisia and tardive dyskinesia (TD) is still a controversial issue worth exploring...
Testing the dissociative taxonJiri Modestin
Psychiatric University Hospital Zurich, Lenggstrasse 31, CH 8029, Zurich, Switzerland
Psychiatry Res 126:77-82. 2004..Taxon membership indicates a higher frequency of dissociative experiences but cannot be equated with the presence of a dissociative disorder...
Long-term course of schizophrenic illness: Bleuler's study reconsideredJiri Modestin
Psychiatric Hospital, University of Zurich, Lenggstrasse 31, CH 8029 Zurich, Switzerland
Am J Psychiatry 160:2202-8. 2003....
Comparison of assessment of personality disorder by patients and informantsJ Modestin
Psychiatric University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland
Psychopathology 33:265-70. 2000..14 for patients versus brothers/sisters and 0.29 for parents versus brothers/sisters. Patient and informant evaluations represent two different assessment approaches of the personality, and a complete agreement is not to be expected...
Follow-up study of hysterical psychosis, reactive/psychogenic psychosis, and schizophreniaJ Modestin
Psychiatric University Hospital, , Switzerland
Compr Psychiatry 42:51-6. 2001..The symptomatology and clinical presentation of nonaffective functional psychoses at first admission do not allow any prognostic longer-term forecast, and the initial differences between individual psychoses tend to disappear over time...
A comparative study on schizophrenic patients with dual diagnosisJ Modestin
Psychiatric University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland
J Addict Dis 20:41-51. 2001..The particularities of schizophrenic patients suffering from different kinds of substance use disorder should be considered when creating individualized therapeutic programs...
Relationship between neuroleptic extrapyramidal syndromes and patients' all-cause mortalityJ Modestin
University of Zurich, Department of Psychiatry, Burghölzli Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland
Pharmacopsychiatry 42:57-60. 2009..The objective of this study was to test whether the occurrence of neuroleptic-induced extrapyramidal syndromes (EPS) including tardive dyskinesia (TD) is associated with an increased patients' all-cause mortality...
Antecedents of opioid dependence and personality disorder: attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and conduct disorderJ Modestin
Psychiatric University Hospital Zurich, Lenggstrasse 31, 8029 Zurich, Switzerland
Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 251:42-7. 2001..Early substance use preventive measures are necessary in children and adolescents suffering from CD and from ADHD comorbid with CD...
Criminality in female inpatients with substance use disordersJ Modestin
Psychiatric University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Eur Addict Res 6:148-53. 2000..In contrast, alcohol-dependent and drug-dependent female patients with a criminal record appear to represent two quite different populations...
Use of potentially abusive psychotropic substances in psychiatric inpatientsJ Modestin
Psychiatric University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland
Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 247:146-53. 1997..Regular substance use correlated with much worse psychosocial adjustment. Substance use has to be explored and considered in every individual psychiatric inpatient...
Two types of classification in female alcoholismRafael Traber
Department of Psychiatry, Burghölzli Hospital, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Arch Womens Ment Health 12:291-9. 2009..Type I lacks these characteristics. Early identification of the type II female alcoholic may be clinically important...
Comparison of four groups of substance-abusing in-patients with different psychiatric comorbidityJ Hättenschwiler
Psychiatric University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland
Acta Psychiatr Scand 104:59-65. 2001....
Dissociative experiences and their correlates in young non-patientsJiri Modestin
Psychiatric University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland
Psychol Psychother 75:53-64. 2002..The findings indicate that both personality characteristics (such as alexithymia and neuroticism) and, to a modest degree, environmental factors in terms of the lack of parental care contribute to the dissociation variance...
Neuropsychiatric consequences (atypical psychosis and complex-partial seizures) of ecstasy use: possible evidence for toxicity-vulnerability predictors and implications for preventative and clinical careMarco Vecellio
Psychiatric University Hospital Zurich, , Switzerland
J Psychopharmacol 17:342-5. 2003..In vulnerable individuals, dose-independent ecstasy abuse can lead to unpredictable and potentially dangerous neuropsychiatric sequelae which require proper initial assessment and adequate treatment...
Relationship of criminality to endogeneity and anxiety in patients with unipolar depressionJiri Modestin
Psychiatric University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 56:153-9. 2002..Thus, in patients with unipolar depression, sociodemographic factors seem to be of a greater even though still limited importance regarding criminal behavior compared with the clinical variables of endogeneity and anxiety...
Patterns of heroin, cocaine, and alcohol abuse during long-term methadone maintenance treatmentAnja Dobler-Mikola
Association for Risk Reduction in Use of Drugs, , Konradstrasse 1, CH-8005 Zurich, Switzerland
J Subst Abuse Treat 29:259-65. 2005..Different therapeutic interventions may be needed in patients with different longitudinal patterns of additional substance use during MMT...
