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[Morbid psychic anesthesia in the structure of depression]
Abstract:
On the basis of clinico-psychopathological observations in 167 patients, the structural-dynamic traits of morbid psychic anesthesia were studied in different forms of depressive conditions. The study detected some quantificational differences in morbid psychic anesthesia according to its volume (local, diffuse-partial and total), its actiality (unsufficiently actual, actual and acutely actual), structure (thymical, "reasoning", delusionlike), related to the depressive affect (parallelism with affect, relative parallelism, an absence of parallelism). The nozological and syndromological regularities in the appearance and development of this phenomenon are shown and the criteria of prognostical evaluations of depressive and depressively shaded states, including morbid psychic anesthesia, are outlined.
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