The Oxford-Liverpool Inventory of Feelings and Experiences (O-LIFE) schizotypy scale in psychiatry
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Schizotypal personality can be perceived as a personality trait and considered as a dimension. In recent decades, this way of thinking has been promoted by a British psychologist Gordon Claridge, the main author of the Oxford-Liverpool Inventory of Feelings and Experiences (O-LIFE) schizotypy scale, which is the subject of this article. In such dimensional model, schizotypy represents a continuum, including the characteristics predisposing to psychosis. Thus, schizotypal features are observed in the general population,
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The assessment of schizotypy by the O-LIFE (Oxford-Liverpool Inventory for Feelings and Experiences) in patients with schizophrenia and affective disorders.
OBJECTIVES The aim of the study was to assess schizotypy by using the Oxford-Liverpool Inventory of Feelings and Experiences (O-LIFE), in the groups of patients with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder (BD) and unipolar (recurrent) depression (UD). An important element of the study was to compare - in terms of similarity - the results obtained in schizophrenia and BD, and - in terms of differences ...
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