Psychopathology as the investigation and classification of experience, behavior and symptoms in psychiatric patients is an old discipline that ranges back to the end of the 19th century. Since then different approaches to psychopathology have been suggested. Recent investigations showing abnormalities in the brain on different levels raise the question how the gap between brain and psyche, betw...

Miscarriage or perinatal loss constitutes one of the most important emotional stressors a woman can experience and be associated with bereavement. This mourning is way adapting coping circumstances. However, inadequate management this process lead to development complicated grief psychopathologies such as anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder. The aim systematic review was evaluat...

infanticide is a horrendous crime universally condemned from all ethical, juridical and moral standpoints. however, legislation on infanticide foresees mitigating circumstances for infanticidal mothers, with sentences by far disproportionate to the severity of the crime. the main justification for this abstaining from severe punishments has been the so-called post puerperal psychosis, whose dia...

BACKGROUND Affective temperaments are presumed to underlie bipolar psychopathology. The TEMPS-A has been widely used to assess affective temperaments in clinical and non-clinical samples. Cross-sectional research supports the association of affective temperaments and mood psychopathology; however, longitudinal research examining risk for the development of bipolar disorders is lacking. The pres...

Background: Prior studies have demonstrated a link between suicidal behavior and parental psychopathology; however, it remains unclear what aspects of suicidal behavior are predicted by specific parental mental disorders. This study set out to investigate the association between parental psychopathology and offspring suicidal behavior in a South African general population sample. Method: Parent...

BACKGROUND We investigated the links between familial loading, preadolescent temperament, and internalizing and externalizing problems in adolescence, hereby distinguishing effects on maladjustment in general versus dimension-specific effects on either internalizing or externalizing problems. METHOD In a population-based sample of 2230 preadolescents (10-11 years) familial loading (parental l...

Since first emerging as an integrative field of study in the 1980s, the discipline of developmental psychopathology has made significant contributions toward the understanding of risk, psychopathology, and resilience across the lifespan. Because both positive and negative adaptations unfold over time, the utilization of a developmental perspective is critical if the processes underlying individ...

Connections between personality traits and psychopathology in children and adolescents have frequently been reported in research studies. However, despite the occurrence of significant and systematic relationships between personality and mental disorders in childhood, a thorough understanding of the cause, nature, and implications of these relationships is lacking. In this paper, a comprehensiv...

Purpose: We examined the housing trajectories of homeless people with mental illness over a follow-up period 6 years and association these food security. then modifying role psychopathology alcohol substance use disorders in this association. Materials Methods: followed 487 adults at Toronto site At Home/Chez-Soi project—a randomized trial Housing First. Food security data were collected seven ...

Much current psychopathology research is framed by categorical constructs. Limitations of categorical constructs have been articulated, and dimensional constructs are often proposed as viable alternatives to categories of psychopathology. The purpose of this Special Section is to articulate and discuss diverse issues that arise in contemplating dimensional constructs as targets for psychopathol...