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Emotional deficit: an adaptative and evolutive process in HIV infection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2020

C Bungener ,
JJ Lefrère ,
D Widlöcher  and
R Jouvent
C Bungener
Affiliation:
CNRS URA 1957, Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, 47 bd de l’Hôpital, 75013Paris
JJ Lefrère
Affiliation:
Service Médecine Interne, Hôpital Saint-Antoine, Paris
D Widlöcher
Affiliation:
INSERM 302, Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, Paris, France
R Jouvent
Affiliation:
CNRS URA 1957, Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, 47 bd de l’Hôpital, 75013Paris
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Summary

The objective of the present study was to evaluate emotional disturbances and psychopathological symptoms in early stages of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. Seventy-one homosexual subjects, positive to HIV and two groups of HIV-negative subjects (32 homosexuals and 26 heterosexuals) were evaluated in a semi-structured interview by two trained raters. The results showed the presence of emotional perturbations already in asymptomatic HIV-positive individuals even in the absence of caracterized depression and/or anxiety. This emotional deficit seemed to be more important in more advanced stages of the disease. Depressive and anxious symptoms appeared to be slightly but significantly present in both groups of homosexual men. This emotional deficit could be the reflect of an adaptative process to the threatening consequences of HIV-infection. Emotional perturbations, even mild should not be neglected, because their reduction contributes to the psychological well being of HIV-positive subjects.

Keywords

HIV-infectionemotional deficitanhedoniadepressionpsychopathology
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European Psychiatry , Volume 10 , Issue 7 , 1995 , pp. 345 - 351
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Copyright © Elsevier, Paris 1995

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