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Depersonalization and Mood Changes in Schizophrenia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

G. Sedman  and
J. C. Kenna
G. Sedman
Affiliation:
University Department of Psychiatry, University of Manchester
J. C. Kenna
Affiliation:
University Department of Psychiatry, University of Manchester
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It has been suggested in a previous paper (Sedman and Reed, 1963) that depersonalization phenomena were most likely to occur in patients with premorbid insecure personalities during a phase of depressive mood. Schneider (1958), includes under the term Insecure Personalities both Anankasts (obsessionals) and Sensitives. In such individuals there is “… a nagging inner uncertainty under various forms of compensatory or over-compensatory activity, especially where the inferiority feelings are of a physical or social character”. The purpose of this paper is to examine further the suggested linking of depersonalization, insecure personality and mood change in schizophrenia.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 109 , Issue 462 , September 1963 , pp. 669 - 673
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1963 

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