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[A systemic view on psychosis].

Michael Lehofer1, Arnold Retzer

  • 1Psychiatrie I, Sigmund-Freud-Klinik Graz, Osterreich. michael.lehofer@lsf-graz.at

Fortschritte Der Neurologie-Psychiatrie
|November 5, 2005
PubMed
Summary

Time perception varies across the lifespan and is significantly altered in psychiatric disorders. Dissociation of time, specifically synchrone and diachrone types, plays a key role in understanding psychosis and affective disorders.

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Area of Science:

  • Psychology
  • Psychiatry
  • Neuroscience

Context:

  • The subjective experience of time evolves throughout an individual's life.
  • Self-experience significantly influences time perception, particularly evident in psychiatric conditions.
  • Psychiatric disorders profoundly disrupt the normal experience of time and synchronism.

Purpose:

  • To explore the relationship between life stages, self-experience, and the perception of time.
  • To investigate the role of time dissociation in understanding psychosis and affective disorders.
  • To differentiate between synchrone and diachrone time dissociation and their systemic implications.

Summary:

  • Time perception shifts across the lifespan, with distinct patterns in youth and older age.
  • Psychosis disrupts temporal identity and synchronism, leading to a fragmented experience of time.
  • Depression is associated with an 'elderly' time experience, while mania resembles a 'childlike' experience.
  • Time dissociation, categorized as synchrone or diachrone, is central to understanding systemic dynamics in psychiatric disorders.
  • Synchrone dissociation involves excessive simultaneity, while diachrone dissociation involves exceeding temporal intervals, both resulting in pseudo-harmony.
  • Specific dissociation patterns are linked to family systems with schizophrenia (synchrone) and affective disorders (diachrone).

Impact:

  • Provides a framework for understanding the temporal disturbances in various psychiatric conditions.
  • Highlights the systemic implications of time dissociation in family and communicative systems.
  • Offers insights into the mechanisms underlying psychosis and affective disorders through the lens of temporal processing.

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