TY - JOUR
T1 - Insight in schizophrenia and mania
AU - Swanson, Charlie L.
AU - Freudenreich, Oliver
AU - McEvoy, Joseph P.
AU - Nelson, Leann
AU - Kamaraju, Lakshmi
AU - Wilson, William H.
PY - 1995/12
Y1 - 1995/12
N2 - We administered a series of 12 brief vignettes depicting examples of positive, negative, and manic psychopathology in everyday language to 21 patients with schizophrenia and 20 patients with mania. We asked patients to rate, first, how similar they were to the individual depicted in each vignette, and, second, the degree to which the experiences or behaviors depicted in each vignette reflected mental illness. Psychiatrists also rated how similar each patient was to each vignette. At admission, patients with schizophrenia rated themselves as significantly less similar to the positive symptom vignettes than the psychiatrists rated them. Patients with mania did not differ from the psychiatrist in rating their similarity to the vignettes, but they strongly denied that the vignettes reflected mental illness.
AB - We administered a series of 12 brief vignettes depicting examples of positive, negative, and manic psychopathology in everyday language to 21 patients with schizophrenia and 20 patients with mania. We asked patients to rate, first, how similar they were to the individual depicted in each vignette, and, second, the degree to which the experiences or behaviors depicted in each vignette reflected mental illness. Psychiatrists also rated how similar each patient was to each vignette. At admission, patients with schizophrenia rated themselves as significantly less similar to the positive symptom vignettes than the psychiatrists rated them. Patients with mania did not differ from the psychiatrist in rating their similarity to the vignettes, but they strongly denied that the vignettes reflected mental illness.
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U2 - 10.1097/00005053-199512000-00004
DO - 10.1097/00005053-199512000-00004
M3 - Article
C2 - 8522936
AN - SCOPUS:0029443730
SN - 0022-3018
VL - 183
SP - 752
EP - 755
JO - Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
JF - Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
IS - 12
ER -