The purpose of this investigation is the assesment of social competence in schizophrenics, neurotic depressives and normals. Social competence has been viewed according to the dimension given by Argyle (1969). Twenty subjects were studied in each group. The California Test of Personality was used to assess social competence in terms of personal and social adjustment. Extraversion and dominance ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the effect of living with a depressed elderly individual on the mental health of the cohabitant carer. METHOD Case-control study comparing rates of psychiatric morbidity in cohabitants of depressed versus well elderly. SETTING Community sample. PARTICIPANTS 44 couples, one partner with AGECAT depression, and 44 couples, one partner diagnosed well by AGECAT. Cohabita...

Forty-eight of the 50 living adult offspring of 16 bipolar patients were interviewed. Data was available on the 2 other offspring, who had previously suicided. One half of the offspring met criteria for psychiatric illness, the majority of which was either primary affective or other affective disorder. The mean age of onset of illness was middle to late adolescence, earlier than that generally ...

There has been a long standing interest in the possible association of stress with illness. A host of studies have suggested a positive relationship between life events and physical illness (Wolff, 1950; Schmale and Engel, 1967; Holmes and Rahe, 1967; Grant et al, 1974). A similar relationship between the onset of psycliiatric illness and life events has also been observed but with lesser consi...

relaxation, and give many health benefits. However varied, its many techniques constitute a psychophysiological therapy which invites applications to psychiatric disorders. For reviews of yoga philosophy, techniques, neurophysiological findings, and studies in anxiety, depression, OCD (Shannahoff-Khalsa et al. 1999), and epilepsy, see Yardi (Kraft et al. 2001) and Becker (Becker, 2000). Janakir...

Negative symptoms have been assessed in 34 cases of major depression (ROC) using the scale for assessment of negative symptoms. Negative symptoms were found to be quite frequently observed in these cases; common negative symptoms were inability to enjoy recreational interests and activities (76%), feelings of anhedonia (64.7%) and physical anergia (55.9%). Poverty of speech was found to be more...

The present study refers to an analysis of eighty cases of depression. The annual incidence in our psychiatric population ranges from 17-20% of all the new psychiatric cases. The peak incidence was observed in the age group of 26-45 years, without any particular affinity to either sex. 83.8% of our sample were married and those hailing from nuclear families formed the larger proportion (58.75%)...

Thirty four cases of endogenous major depression (RDC) have been studied in order to examine whether negative symptoms influence the outcome of depression, by comparing depressives with and without predominant negative symptoms, and by examining which negative symptoms have high percentage reduction in scores. Patients were rated on Scale for Assessment of Negative Symptoms (SANS) during their ...