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Investigating the Effects of Antipsychotics and Schizotypy on the N400 Using Event-Related Potentials and Semantic Categorization
Published on: November 19, 2014
[Gottfried Benn and schizoidism]
1Abt. für Psychiatrie, Psychotherapie und Psychosomatik, Vivantes, Klinikum am Urban, Dieffenbachstrasse 1, 10967, Berlin, Deutschland. guido.pliska@vivantes.de
Abstract:
Based on increasing criticism concerning operational diagnostics in psychiatry, the concept of schizoid personality disorder in ICD and DSM is discussed critically. In a case study regarding the poet and doctor Gottfried Benn, the limitation of manualized, context-independent diagnostic systems is shown. In contrast Ernst Kretschmer's concept of schizoidism seems suitable to describe a schizoid character in his ambiguity.
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