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Spatial notions peculiarities as a mark of the schizophrenia's degree of intensity
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 April 2020
Abstract
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Spatial notions belong to the most important concepts, which depict and characterize person's consciousness and determine its thought's and world image's specificity. Spatial notions’ peculiarities in connection with psychic pathology of the different degree of intensity are scanty explored.
Objective
Spatial notions’ peculiarities specific to individuals who suffer from schizophrenic spectrum disorders of the different degree of intensity.
Sample
Schizophrenia (ICD-10, F20) (30 individuals), schizotypal disorder (F21) (30) and conditionally healthy (60). Exception criteria: organic affection lesions CNS, epilepsy (G40), mental retardation (F70-F79). The experimental base: Moscow mental hospital №13.
Aim
To analyze and to describe spatial notions’ peculiarities specific to individuals who suffer from schizophrenic spectrum disorders (sexual differences are taken into consideration).
Methods
The following groups of methods were used to achieve the aim of research: methods intended for “direct” space perception research; projective and reflexive techniques; methods intended for the thought peculiarities research.
Results
Blatant violations of the spatial perception were found in experimental group. Sexual differences were defined: more abstract and nonstandard decisions are specific for men, more concrete and fragmentary - women.
It should be noted that errors amount wasn’t rising in the experimental group with the complication of the tasks.
Conclusions
Blatant violations of the spatial perception include emasculation, image distortion, perseveration, notion agglutination, decision paradoxicality, ambivalence etc. These violations are classified as the peculiarity of the negative psychopathological manifestations of thought and perception specific to the schizophrenia.
In some case, spatial idea can expose predisposition to the latent psychic pathology of endogenous origin.
- Type
- P03-235
- Information
- European Psychiatry , Volume 26 , Issue S2: Abstracts of the 19th European Congress of Psychiatry , March 2011 , pp. 1404
- Copyright
- Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2011
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