Journal article
DEPERSONALIZATION IN ACCIDENT VICTIMS AND PSYCHIATRIC PATIENTS
The journal of nervous and mental disease, Vol.164(6), pp.401-407
06/1977
DOI: 10.1097/00005053-197706000-00005
PMID: 864453
Abstract
A transient depersonalization syndrome was identified in nearly one third of persons exposed to life-threatening danger (accident victims) and close to 40 per cent of a group of hospitalized psychiatric patients. Although the syndrome was similar in these populations, mental clouding developed more commonly among patients and alertness was more prominent among accident victims. Anxiety was significantly associated with the development of depersonalization among psychiatric patients and was almost certainly a factor in its appearance among accident victims. The findings suggest that this syndrome is a specific response to extreme danger or its associated anxiety.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- DEPERSONALIZATION IN ACCIDENT VICTIMS AND PSYCHIATRIC PATIENTS
- Creators
- RUSSELL NOYES - Dept. of Psychiatry, University of Iowa College of Medicine, 500 Newton Road, Iowa City, Iowa 52242PAUL HOENKSAMUEL KUPERMANDONALD SLYMEN
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- The journal of nervous and mental disease, Vol.164(6), pp.401-407
- Publisher
- Williams & Wilkins
- DOI
- 10.1097/00005053-197706000-00005
- PMID
- 864453
- ISSN
- 0022-3018
- eISSN
- 1539-736X
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 06/1977
- Academic Unit
- Psychiatry; Stead Family Department of Pediatrics
- Record Identifier
- 9984003934902771
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