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PubMed1977

Psychogenic vertigo within an anxiety frame of reference: an experimental study.

The theoretical point of departure here was the assumption that a psychogenic vertigo patient displaces affect, or experience of anxiety to one of dizziness, the dizziness serving as an anxiety equivalent. This is seen to imply a change in the locus of experience from the me to the not-me sphere. "Percept-genetic" techniques and a spiral after-effect measurement were used to compare 23 patients with presumed psychogenic vertigo with a control group matched in sex, age, education and occupation. Results of the percept-genetic techniques showed the patients to display stronger signs of affect anxiety than subjects in the control group. Also two main subgroups of patients were differentiated with the help of the descriptive instruments, one group with signs of a primitive-hysteroid mode of functioning, the other with signs of an obsessive-compulsive mode. For both subgroups the suggested displacement mechanism seemed to be functioning. Its apparent effect differed, however, for the two subgroups: in the "primitive-hysteroid" group the displacement mechanism was more effective. The "obsessive-compulsive" group showed stronger signs of affect anxiety, dizziness here being better characterized as a concomitant than as an equivalent of anxiety. Results of a follow-up two years after the investigation also showed a poorer development of symptoms within the "obsessive-compulsive" group.

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PubMed1980

The factorial reliability of the Middlesex Hospital Questionnaire in normal subjects.

The internal reliability of the Middlesex Hospital Questionnaire and its component subscales has been checked by means of principal components analyses of data on 256 normal subjects. The subscales (with the possible exception of Hysteria) were found to contribute to the general underlying factor of psychoneurosis. In general, the principal components analysis points to the reliability of the subscales, despite some item overlap.

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PubMed1984

Hoarding in anorexia nervosa.

A case study of hoarding in a woman with anorexia nervosa is reported. Obsessional and borderline personality characteristics, exacerbated by starvation, may be determinants of hoarding in anorexia nervosa.

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PubMed1987

Extraversion, neuroticism, obsessionality and the type A behaviour pattern.

A questionnaire consisting of a subset of questions from the Jenkins Activity Survey was given to 135 male military personnel aged between 18 and 25, together with the EPQ and the AI3, an obsessionality scale. A factor analysis of the answers revealed a four-factor structure - impatience, hard-driving competitiveness, speed and emotional unrepression. Neuroticism was found to correlate positively with impatience and speed, but negatively with hard-driving competitiveness, which together with emotional unrepression correlated positively with extraversion. Impatience, speed and emotional unrepression also correlated positively with obsessionality. Obsessionality was the only personality measure to correlate significantly with the total Type A score. The nature of the relationships between the Type A behaviour pattern and the Eysenckian personality measures are discussed.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1989

Samson's complex: the compulsion to re-enact betrayal and rage.

A comparison of the life story of a psychotherapy patient to that of biblical Samson reveals that both men suffer from a behavioural disturbance, manifested in the compulsion to re-enact the experience of betrayal by women, followed by destructive attacks of rage against others, and ultimately against their own tormented selves. The author tracks the origin of repetition compulsion to its proposed psychobiological foundations of attachment-formation and its development. Samson's complex is viewed as a deep-seated, characterological defect, stemming from faulty object relations and leading to existential despair and suicidal longing. The existence of a detailed psychopathological phenomenology embedded in timeless biblical lore denotes once more the alliance between myth and psychology.

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Dissociative symptoms in obsessive-compulsive dimensions.

Previous studies have described co-occurrence between obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and dissociation. We intended to evaluate the phenomenological association between different obsessive-compulsive and dissociative symptoms more precisely. Seventy patients with OCD (DSM-IV) were evaluated with the Hamburg Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory (HZI) and the Dissociation Experience Scale. Correlation and discriminant analysis were performed. The dimensions 'Checking' and 'Symmetry and Ordering' were significantly related to dissociative symptomatology. A clear-cut lack of association was found in 'Washing and Cleaning', 'Counting and Touching' and 'Aggressive Impulses and Fantasies'. HZI dimensions significantly discriminated patients with high from patients with low dissociative symptomatology. Psychodynamic and therapeutical aspects of these findings are discussed.

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PubMed1991

Obsessive-compulsive symptoms in children and adolescents. A phenomenological analysis of 61 Danish cases.

The charts of 61 children and adolescents admitted to the Psychiatric Hospital for Children in Aarhus, Denmark, in the period 1970-1986 fulfilling the DSM-III criteria for obsessive-compulsive disorder were reviewed for obsessive/compulsive symptoms. The symptoms were divided into form and content. The most common form of compulsion was rituals seen in 39 of the patients, and the most common compulsive content was washing. The most frequent obsessive content was thoughts about dirt and contamination followed by concern about death, illness and harm. The phenomenological feature of boys and girls was very similar, and only a few significant differences between boys and girls were found. One quarter of the boys and 12.5% of the girls had only obsession, whereas 27.0% of the boys and 37.5% of the girls had only compulsion and no obsession. The number of obsessive/compulsive symptoms was not found to correlate with the time spent each day on the symptom. It is concluded that there do not seem to be any intercultural differences between Denmark, India, and Japan as to the content of obsessional thoughts and compulsive behaviour in children and adolescents.

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PubMed1996

Obsessive-compulsive disorder and rheumatic chorea: is there a connection?

There is increasing evidence to suggest basal ganglion involvement in the aetiopathogenesis of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Twenty subjects with rheumatic chorea were assessed for presence of OCD and evaluated on Leyton's Obsessional Inventory. Four subjects had OCD. The study group had markedly higher scores on all the scales of Leyton's Obsessional Inventory. The findings implicate that caudate dysfunction is not sufficient on its own to explain the presence of obsessive-compulsive behaviour and that additional basal ganglion regions/rostral connections also have to be involved to produce co-morbidity.

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