Accurate information about the incidence and prevalence of anxiety disorders is difficult to obtain; a survey by the Office of National Statistics (ONS 2000) found that 164 people per 1,000 had a neurotic disorder in the week before interview, which represents about 1 in 6 of all adults. They found that the most prevalent neurotic disorder among the population as a whole was mixed anxiety and d...

OBJECTIVES Analysis of associations between symptoms reported before the beginning of the hospitalization and reduction of suicidal ideation - or its lack - obtained until the end of the hospitalization in patients of the day hospital for the treatment of neurotic and behavioral disorders. METHODS Symptoms Checklist KO"O" and Life Inventory completed by 461 women and 219 men treated with inte...

Subjective quality of life (SQOL) is an important outcome in the treatment of patients with schizophrenia. However, there is only limited evidence on factors influencing SQOL, and little is known about whether the same factors influence SQOL in patients with schizophrenia and other mental disorders. This study aimed to identify the factors associated with SQOL and test whether these factors are...

It has been found (O'Connor, 1951) that certain psychological tests provide a means of predicting the amount of emotional instability in high-grade defectives, when the latter quality is rated by psychiatrists acquainted with the patients. The psychological tests were of primary suggestibility, general locomotor coordination, and persistence. The multiple correlation of the results of these tes...

OBJECTIVES The objective of the study was to examine the repertoire and intensity of manipulation tactics of neurotic patients in everyday life and during therapy, as well as diagnosing the intensity of Machiavellianism in neurotic patients. METHODS There were 111 study subjects: 44 patients with diagnosed neurotic disorders, 44 people from the control group and 23 therapists. The manipulatio...

INTRODUCTION There is an ample evidence of the impact of severe traumatic events, such as sexual abuse in childhood, on the formation of disorders--especially the non-psychotic ones: sexual, neurotic and personality. So far, an increase of the risk with the accumulation of traumatic factors has been indicated, but less attention has been paid to adverse events such as lack of sexual education, ...

AIM Assessment of reliability, cross-validity and usefulness in everyday clinical practice of two related tools: Social Avoidance and Distress Scale (SAD) and Fear of Negative Evaluation Scale (FNE). MATERIAL AND METHOD Analysis of tests results of 453 females and 172 males diagnosed in the years 2008-2010 in the Outpatient Clinic for Neurotic and Behavioral Disorders of the Cracow University...

INTRODUCTION We identify the risk of selected types of injuries among patients with ADHD or ADHD and comorbid mental illness. We also assess whether selected medications used by patients with ADHD increase the risk of comorbid mental illness or influence the association between ADHD and injury. METHODS A retrospective cohort study design was conducted using medical claims data from the Desere...

Four groups of subjects-neurotic extraverts, stable extraverts, neurotic introverts, and stable introverts-were instructed to trace a circle template as slowly as possible. The tracing task was performed under one of three conditions: Condition Rw entailed the presence of reward cues, Condition Pn entailed the presence of punishment cues, and Condition G (while involving the presence of goal st...