Individuals with major depressive disorder (MDD) demonstrate deficits in multiple social cognitive domains; however, systematic investigations of empathic responding have not been performed. Twenty patients with MDD completed two measures of empathy, the Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI: Davis, 1980, 1983) and the Toronto Empathy Questionnaire (TEQ: Spreng et al., 2009). Relative to matched ...

This article studies the literary forces around pandemic in India. It looks at purpose and motivation of poetry, role writer writing behaviours digital medium. A combination primary secondary texts has been used to present therapeutic community building poetry. Additionally, interviews were conducted with thirteen poets who about posting their work on Instagram. The main theoretical frameworks ...

Mental disorders in persons over 18 years of age are quite common and represented by a fairly extensive list diseases. In patients with similar pathology, there is also need for interventions manipulations under conditions anesthesia. The article presents the principles perioperative management most mental illnesses — affective disorders, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, anxiety behavioral synd...

Due to high unemployment rates, people with mental illness are at risk of poverty and are deprived of the social and psychological functions of work, such as the provision of social support, structuring of time, and self-esteem, with a negative effect on their perceived quality of life (QoL). Two distinct processes are held responsible for the low work force participation of people with mental ...

Key words: bipolar disorder-unipolar depression – diagnosis – treatment – guidelines-suicidality Increasing understanding of the bipolar spectrum of disorders has led to an increasing integration of concepts regarding the aetiology and treatment of affective disorders. Thus, for example, we now understand that an illness, previously believed to be recurrent depressive disorder, may develop over...

This paper investigates from a phenomenological perspective the origins of self-illness ambiguity. Drawing on theories affectivity and selfhood, I argue that, as phenomenon which concerns primarily ‘personal self’, ambiguity is dependent distinct alterations affective background orientations. start by illustrating how personhood anchored in experience specific set non-intentional affects – i.e....

BACKGROUND Babies of mothers with psychotic disorders are known to have higher rates of poor obstetric outcome, including higher mortality rates. OBJECTIVE To estimate risks of stillbirth and neonatal death by specific causes in babies of mothers with histories of severe mental illness, relative to the general population. METHODS A cohort of 1.45 million live births and 7021 stillbirths dur...

BACKGROUND It remains unclear whether or not a positive family history of affective disorders predicts the effectiveness of antidepressant treatment of depression. AIMS Assess the relationship of a family history of affective disorders to the efficacy of duloxetine in the treatment of depressive disorder. METHODS Seventy-seven patients with depressive disorder (as defined by the 10th editio...

Although some research has examined negative automatic aspects of attitudes toward mental illness via relatively indirect measures among Western samples, it is unclear whether negative attitudes can be automatically activated in individuals from non-Western countries. This study attempted to validate results from Western samples with Chinese college students. We first examined the three-compone...

A five-year follow-up study of 38 patients with 'psychosis not otherwise specified' revealed that diagnostic change occurred in 34.2% of the patients. 15.8% of the patients developed schizophrenia and 18.4% developed affective disorders. The initial diagnosis was retained in 65.8% of the patients. The onset of the illness was acute in patients from rural background and this is statistically sig...