Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- PART I INTRODUCTION: THE EXPERIENCE OF PSYCHOPATHOLOGY
- PART II THE EXPERIENCE SAMPLING METHOD: PROCEDURES AND ANALYSES
- PART III EXPERIENCE SAMPLING STUDIES WITH CLINICAL SAMPLES
- 7 Variability of schizophrenia symptoms
- 8 The daily life of ambulatory chronic mental patients
- 9 ‘Goofed-up’ images: thought sampling with a schizophrenic woman
- 10 The social ecology of anxiety: theoretical and quantitative perspectives
- 11 Consequences of depression for the experience of anxiety in daily life
- 12 Dysphoric moods in depressed and non-depressed adolescents
- 13 Capturing alternate personalities: the use of Experience Sampling in multiple personality disorder
- 14 Bulimia in daily life: a context-bound syndrome
- 15 Alcohol and marijuana use in adolescents' daily lives
- 16 Drug craving and drug use in the daily life of heroin addicts
- 17 Stress, coping and cortisol dynamics in daily life
- 18 Vital exhaustion or depression: a study of daily mood in exhausted male subjects at risk for myocardial infarction
- 19 Blood pressure and behavior: mood, activity and blood pressure in daily life
- PART IV THERAPEUTIC APPLICATIONS OF THE EXPERIENCE SAMPLING METHOD
- PART V PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH APPLICATIONS: PRACTICAL ISSUES and ATTENTION POINTS
- CLOSING Looking to the future
- References
- List of contributors
- Index
8 - The daily life of ambulatory chronic mental patients
from PART III - EXPERIENCE SAMPLING STUDIES WITH CLINICAL SAMPLES
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 May 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- PART I INTRODUCTION: THE EXPERIENCE OF PSYCHOPATHOLOGY
- PART II THE EXPERIENCE SAMPLING METHOD: PROCEDURES AND ANALYSES
- PART III EXPERIENCE SAMPLING STUDIES WITH CLINICAL SAMPLES
- 7 Variability of schizophrenia symptoms
- 8 The daily life of ambulatory chronic mental patients
- 9 ‘Goofed-up’ images: thought sampling with a schizophrenic woman
- 10 The social ecology of anxiety: theoretical and quantitative perspectives
- 11 Consequences of depression for the experience of anxiety in daily life
- 12 Dysphoric moods in depressed and non-depressed adolescents
- 13 Capturing alternate personalities: the use of Experience Sampling in multiple personality disorder
- 14 Bulimia in daily life: a context-bound syndrome
- 15 Alcohol and marijuana use in adolescents' daily lives
- 16 Drug craving and drug use in the daily life of heroin addicts
- 17 Stress, coping and cortisol dynamics in daily life
- 18 Vital exhaustion or depression: a study of daily mood in exhausted male subjects at risk for myocardial infarction
- 19 Blood pressure and behavior: mood, activity and blood pressure in daily life
- PART IV THERAPEUTIC APPLICATIONS OF THE EXPERIENCE SAMPLING METHOD
- PART V PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH APPLICATIONS: PRACTICAL ISSUES and ATTENTION POINTS
- CLOSING Looking to the future
- References
- List of contributors
- Index
Summary
Time-sampling research using self-report instruments has described the daily life patterns of people in different nations (Szalai, 1972; Robinson, 1977) and communities (Barker, 1968, 1978) and subjects of different ages (Csikszentmihalyi & Larson, 1984). These studies present a rich body of significant findings that differentiate behavior and activities within subjects over time and between categories of subjects. In spite of the accruing evidence for the variability of human reactivity and behavior, recent static pathological typologies for use in neuropsychiatric research (Crow, 1980, 1982; Andreasen, 1982; Pao, 1979) and bureaucratic third-party reimbursement schemes (Mason et al., 1985; Sinclair & Alexson, 1985; Widem et al., 1984; Rupp et al., 1984) stress the general view that chronic mental disorders are invariable over long periods of time. Nevertheless, there are studies to the contrary suggesting that subtypes of schizophrenia evolve in relation to context and life stages (Kendler et al., 1985) and that have traced the increased morbidity of illness throughout the life cycle (Bleuler, 1978; Ciompi & Mtiller, 1976). Recent work in schizophrenia research has taken a more detailed look at the onset of the disorder (Donlon & Blaker, 1973, 1975; Docherty et al., 1978; Chapman & Chapman, 1980), its relapse (Heinrichs & Carpenter, 1985) and recovery from acute episodes (Szymanski et al., 1983). These inquiries suggest that it would be wise to take a closer look at chronic illness and take variations in social environment (Zubin et al., 1985) and changes in the vulnerability of the subject over time more fully into account (Strauss et al., 1981, 1985).
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- The Experience of PsychopathologyInvestigating Mental Disorders in their Natural Settings, pp. 110 - 122Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1992
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