Contribution to postnonclassical psychopathology

The contribution of gene-environment interaction to psychopathology.

The study of gene-environment interaction (G x E) constitutes an area of significant social and clinical significance. Different types of research study designs are being used to investigate the contribution of G x E to psychopathology, although the term G x E has also been used and interpreted in different ways. Despite mixed evidence that G x E contributes to psychopathology, some promising a...

A New Understanding of Psychopathy: The Contribution of Phenomenological Psychopathology.

The objective of this study is to present a theoretical paper about a clinical issue. Our aim is to propose some clinical and semiological considerations for a psychopathological conception of psychopathy. We will discuss several major theoretical works dedicated to this nosographic entity (mainly those of Schneider [Psychopathic Personalities (1923). London, Cassell, 1950], Cleckley [The Mask ...

ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION Relationships Between Poverty and Psychopathology A Natural Experiment

THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN POVerty and mental illness has been described throughout the world and throughout history. Clinicians and researchers have noted the difficulty of untangling the effects of “social causation, . . . adversity and stress associated with low social statuses” from those of “social selection, [which] posits that genetically predisposed persons drift down to or fail to rise ou...

Anorexia nervosa and parental bonding: the contribution of parent-grandparent relationships to eating disorder psychopathology.

The present study adopted an intergenerational approach in examining the association between parental bonding and anorexia nervosa. Forty-three anorexic participants and 33 nonclinical comparison participants completed eating disorder questionnaires and the Parental Bonding Instrument (PBI). The participant's parents also completed the PBI. The anorexic participants perceived both parents as le...

Clinical Studies on Psychopathology: A Contribution to the Aetiology of Neurotic Illness