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Increased Sense of Identity in Delusional Disorders
- Source :
- Psychological Reports. 94:926-930
- Publication Year :
- 2004
- Publisher :
- SAGE Publications, 2004.
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Abstract
- Language, which is unique in each subject, can reflect how a patient copes with disease. The method ALCESTE used here made it possible at the same time to analyse the subject's verbal behavior and speech patterns at several levels. The present study was designed to analyse during a 3-mo. period the language production of subjects with paranoia exhibiting delusional disorder (nonbizarre delusions without any hallucination) of imaginative subtype. The subjects produced very specific speech without any semantic or syntactic impairment and disruption in language or thinking processes, but with a poverty of speech content. The main feature of the study was the analysis of the underlying syntactic processes showing that the tested patients presented a “hard” sense of identity: the patient found always a strong place for himself among the various types of discourse whatever their topics.
- Subjects :
- Language production
Delusional disorder
05 social sciences
Subject (philosophy)
050301 education
Identity (social science)
Linguistics
050109 social psychology
medicine.disease
Thinking processes
Delusions
Self Concept
Developmental psychology
Reflexive pronoun
Feature (linguistics)
Adaptation, Psychological
medicine
Humans
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Paranoia
medicine.symptom
Psychology
0503 education
General Psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 1558691X and 00332941
- Volume :
- 94
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Psychological Reports
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....29454157852b4803468f2d8c33adee41