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..Users of the baroque definition do not need such aids. It is not for the historian to judge which of these two definitions is more felicitous and more conducive to the moral and aesthetic edification of psychiatry and her patients...

..This lack of convergence is hampering the understanding and management of elderly people suffering from insanity and must be resolved...

..It is also clear that it was rehash of the earlier moral notion of 'satyriasis' (a male category applied to women) and the expression of seventeenth-century changing male attitudes towards, and fears of, female sexuality...

..This metamorphosis took about sixty years to complete, and the extract reprinted below instances the way in which such a process took place within English alienism...

..On account of this, it is unlikely that there will ever be a final, 'scientific' definition rendering erotomania into a 'natural kind' and making it susceptible to brain localization and biological treatment...

..This paper justifies the choice of Müller's book as a classic text, provides biographical data about its author, and places the book in its historical context...

..A result like this should be the best remedy for those chronically affected by historiographic pangs...

..Psychiatric profiles of two at-risk groups [Huntington's disease (HD) gene carriers and non-carriers] were compared by means of a computerized battery and a structured interview...

..The Classic Text that follows was written by Sir Alexander Crichton at the end of the 18th century, and is a good example of the centripetal mode of philosophy-making...

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..This contains two assumptions, that: (i) the activity of classifying is inherent to the human mind; and (ii) psychiatric 'phenomena' are stable natural objects...

..This paper discusses some of these issues and justifies the choice of classic text, namely, Lotze's illuminating Introduction to his book Medicinische Psychologie oder Physiologie der Seele...

..Whether the novelty of his ideas irked contemporary psychiatric officialdom needs further study...

..69). Although the debate on the ontology and meaning of the 'phantasms of the living' has continued to this day, it has had no influence on the medical concept of hallucination. It is likely that the latter has suffered as a result...

..The new questionnaire shows good reliability and validity. Preliminary differences in irritability were identified between the diagnostic groups...

..Information provided by patients with schizophrenia and their respective carers is used to study the descriptive psychopathology and neuropsychology of formal thought disorder (FTD)...

..The aim of this study was to evaluate incidence and validity of ATPD in terms of diagnostic stability...

..The lack of defining features and poor prognostic validity argue against the separation of ATPD from borderland categories...

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..RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: Our analysis shows mental symptoms to be unstable constructs with implications for both correlational research and further theoretical exploration...

..Response to treatment and prognosis was good, particularly for primary erotomania and erotomania secondary to bipolar affective disorder...

..In practical terms, these differences should encourage the development of management and rehabilitation strategies that are individual to specific phenomena of awareness...

..Explication of these factors allows for the delineation of specific insight phenomena whose respective usefulness can be determined by empirical research...

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..Scores for irritability and cognitive failures were high in the sample. There was no correlation between any psychiatric variable and CAG repeats. Possible explanations for this lack of correlations are discussed...

..The authors describe the profile of performance of patients whose cognitive complaint is due to dementia, affective disorder, or combinations thereof on the Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examination (ACE) test battery...

..The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between the concept of reactive psychosis (RP), equivalent to the ICD-8 298 category of 'other psychoses', and ATPD...

..This study forms the preliminary basis for future work examining the phenomenon of insight, its relationship to clinical variables and its predictive validity in terms of patients' behaviours and prognoses...

..quot; French psychological writers played a crucial role in the conceptualization of déjà vu and this report presents a detailed history of their contribution...

..We examined the relationships between cognitive impairment and residual symptoms, clinical history, general functioning and employment...

..These findings were not influenced by cultural differences between Japanese and British subjects, and, hence, suggested the existence of culture-neutral neurobehavioural processes...

..Understanding more about the nature and contribution of the 'object' of insight in the insight-'object' relationship will help to delineate separate insight phenomena and achieve consistency in empirical studies on insight...

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..To test the dysexecutive syndrome (DES) hypothesis of chronic alcoholism by the neuropsychological group and case study approaches...

..These findings may have relevance for our understanding of the genesis of visual hallucinations, and the differential diagnosis of AD and DLB...

..It is tentatively suggested that this might be an abnormality in the dopamine system...