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1 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, 333 Cedar Street, New Haven, Connecticut, 06510
2 Associate Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine; Chief Psychologist, Yale-New Haven Hospital
3 Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine; and Medical Director, Psychiatric Inpatient Division, Yale-New Haven Hospital
The present research, designed to investigate the presence of depersonalization in psychiatric patients, found that depersonalization occurs more frequently in younger patients who are frequently anxious, who seem to be preoccupied with internal processes, and who have a tendency toward cyclothymia and depression. From this study depersonalization and derealization seem to be two aspects of the same phenomenon, and in this respect emerge as symptoms rather than as discrete diagnostic entities. One interesting question is whether these phenomena are lifelong events or occur only at the times of an emotional illness, as proposed by Mayer-Gross. The current data, particularly the correlations with the various personality inventories which are usually indicative of longstanding personality traits, would indicate that these phenomena are probably present throughout most of life but are intensified and noted more during periods of emotional distress.
Submitted on September 15, 1969
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