Abstract
Catatonic patients are often not able to communicate their subjective experiences behind their 'fassade of immobility'. Therefore we retrospectively (3 weeks later) investigated subjective experiences in 24 catatonic patients with a self-assessment-scale especially for catatonia developed by us. Our results showed that catatonic patients subjectively experience less their altered movements but rather cognitive, i.e. ambivalence, or affective, i.e. intense emotions which couldn't be controlled, alterations. According to our results we were able to distinguish an emotive (intense anxiety) from a nonemotive, i.e. cognitive (predominating ambivalence), subtype in catatonia with regard to subjective experience.
| Translated title of the contribution | Subjective experience in catatonia: Systematic investigation in 24 catatonic patients |
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| Original language | German |
| Pages (from-to) | 69-73 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Psychiatrische Praxis |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| Publication status | Published - 1996 |
| Externally published | Yes |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Psychiatry and Mental health
