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L Ravizza

Publications and source records attributed to L Ravizza.

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[Personality structure in depression].

A catamnestic study has been carried out on 45 patients, who had presented "major affective disturbances" according to the DSM III classification, for the purpose of evaluating various features of depressive disease. It is deduced that the depressed personality is not without changes even in the interval period: these are partly attributable to a residual syndrome, in part they are practically constant constituents of the personality of the endogenous depressed.

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[The elderly and their existence model. A study with projective technics].

Elderly subjects free from psychiatric diseases and hospitalised at centres run in accordance with different models have been examined. The T.A.T. was carried out. Certain common elements emerge that would appear to be related to the senile age. Others appear to be psychological superstructures related to the different conditions of existence.

Aged↗
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[Social adaptation of patients with recurrent depressive episodes].

A catamnestic study has been carried out in 45 patients with "major affective disturbance" precedents so as to ascertain the possible presence of a "residual syndrome" or a personality "at risk" for depressive disease emerging during so-called interval periods. Special attention is paid to examination of social adaptation in these periods. The instruments employed for the investigation, apart from the clinical conversation and documentation relating to prior admissions were: APDI (record of personal data in the case of adults), the Hamilton Scale, the B.P.R.S. (Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale), the S.A.S. (Scale of Social Adaptation) and Rorschach's Psychodiagnosis. The results obtained evidence a series of more or less marked, but always present psychic disturbances characterising the interval period, with problems of adaptation both to working activity and to social relations, especially in the extra-familial environment. These disturbances are attributable in part to a personality at risk and in part to an authentic residual syndrome.

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[Age of onset and familial occurrence of manic-depressive psychosis].

In order to test the hypothesis that age of onset of manic-depressive psychosis may be associated with family history, the authors investigated 479 clinical records of patients suffering from affective disorders and admitted to Hospital during the period 1966-1981. Given the retrospective nature of the study, standardized diagnostic criteria were not possible. A positive family history of psychopathological disorders has been found associated with an early age of onset in comparison with a negative family history; the bipolar type has been found associated with an early age of onset in comparison with the unipolar type. Nevertheless, both these variables and their interaction appeared to be insufficiently predictive. The possible influence of other variables such as sex, marital status, years of education, migration, residence have been investigated, but none of them gave any significant result. This suggests the presence of other more predictive variables, which have not considered in this paper.

Adolescent↗