Characteristics of Logic Structure in Schizophrenics - A qualitative analysis of the world view of patients taking pre-atypical psychotropic drugs

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  • 統合失調症者における論理構造の特徴-非定型向精神薬処方前の患者における世界観の質的分析

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Purpose: The author evaluated the world view of schizophrenics in comparison with normal controls. Methods:The world view inquiry was performed with 41 in-patients diagnosed with schizophrenia and 50 normal controlsin 1996. Results: Frequently seen responses in schizophrenia were concreteness, affective responses, bipolarization,dispersion, conclusiveness, conceit, persecuted delusion (females), religious tendency (females), and relationshipdominance (females). Discussion: The tendencies seen in the responses of schizophrenics showed almost the samecognitive stage in the pre-operation period or concrete operation period in Piaget's cognitive development theory.This suggests that the instability in emotion such as extreme anxiety or fear should drive human beings to seeka stable state, which may consequently result in emotional regression. In chronic schizophrenics, regression in thecognitive stage occurred, as well as regression in emotion and emotional instability. This creates the strange logicof autistic thinking or archetypal thinking to keep a balance in the mind. The tendency shown in schizophrenicssuggests that schizophrenics accept subjective and specifi c experiences that occurred uncritically instead of criticallyadopting the experiences, or give the impression that their consciousness is clear by exclusively denying theghosts and the extraterrestrials (E.T.). This suggests consideration be given to the circumstances adding to thesickness itself. In this sense, even schizophrenics are under circumstance restrictions, and so the psychological effectof a given circumstances should be carefully considered.

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