OBJECTIVE To explore the indirect self-destructiveness syndrome in patients with schizophrenia. METHODS Two hundred individuals with paranoid schizophrenia (117 men and 83 women, mean age 37.15 years), all in remission, were examined using the Polish version of the Chronic Self-Destructiveness Scale. Two hundred well-matched healthy individuals served as a control group. RESULTS The intensi...

The present investigation sought to expand our understanding of the cognitive processes underlying the recognition of antonyms and to evaluate whether these processes differed in patients with schizophrenia and in healthy controls. Antonymy is the most robust of the lexico-semantic relations and is relevant to both the mental organization of the lexicon and the organization of coherent discours...

We previously reported finding that performance was impaired on four out of five theory of mind (ToM) tests in a group of 21 individuals diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia (pScz), relative to a non-clinical group of 29 individuals (Scherzer et al., 2012). Only the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test did not distinguish between groups. A principal components analysis revealed that the results o...

Editorial note: This chapter came to be written under different circumstances than the other chapters, as it is a slightly modified version of a personal letter from Professor Meehl to myself. Meehl was writing in response to an invited commentary that I had written for the Journal of Personality Disorders, concerning Meehl’s (1990c) important theory paper in that journal. My commentary express...

First episode schizophrenia (FES) patients tend to be more responsive to treatment. An adequate response has been associated with a favourable long-term course in FES patients. Yet, despite the generally very favourable response profile around one quarter of the patients shows persisting symptoms of psychosis. To improve the outcome and course of psychosis great effort has emerged in identifyin...

Objectives Schizophrenia therapy aims to control clinical symptoms and improve patient quality of life and functioning. The aim of this study was to present the 12-month outcomes associated with antipsychotic treatment of Italian patients participating in the Schizophrenia Outpatient Health Outcomes (SOHO) study. SOHO is a 3-year, prospective, observational study of the health outcomes associat...

The Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) was originally designed as a rating system that provides balanced representation of positive and negative symptom features. Evidence from recent factor-analytic studies suggests that a five-dimensional solution appears to best fit the psychopathological data as assessed with the PANSS. To investigate the dimensional structure, we administered the...

A diagnosis of Paranoid Schizophrenia was made. He was treated with T. Chlorpromazine 200 mg., HS. T. Eskazine 5 mg. HS. and T. Pacitane 1 HS. 4 ECTS. were given. Within 15 days all the anormal ideas and singing behaviour disappeared. By this time he was showing improvement in other psychiatric manifestations. Within one month he attained premorbid state. Patient later told me " 'Those ideas' a...