Word: dernovsek
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2008-2008
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Psychopathology of Schizophrenia Borut Skodlar, Mojca Dernovsek and Marga Kocmur, University of Ljubljana...
...culprits. And a century ago, before radio was invented, it might have been a simple case of "hearing voices." In a paper published last spring, three Slovenian psychiatrists examined the ways in which insanity has historically manifested itself, and whether "crazy" has always been the same. Borut Skodlar, Mojca Dernovsek and Marga Kocmur studied 120 records of schizophrenic patients admitted to the Ljubljana (Slovenia) psychiatric hospital between 1881 and 2000 to see if psychotic delusions are affected by contemporary culture. As it turns out, they...
...Lowdown: The report, published in the International Journal of Social Psychiatry, uses relatively simple language easily digested by anyone with an amateur interest in psychology (or who ever completed a high school science report). Although Skodlar, Dernovsek and Kocmur shy away from pinpointing the exact causes behind their observations - admitting that their research was hindered by a small sample size, the need to rely on second-hand interpretations of patients' problems, and the fact that the medical community's knowledge of schizophrenia has changed over the past century - their observations are enough to give us pause. While the underlying causes...
| 1 |