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Showing 1 to 20 of 62 for “"manic"”.
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Discourse analysis of interviews with manic patients
This thesis analyses the discourse of two manic patients, interviewed at an acute stage of their illness. The analysis has two aims: to begin a comprehensive analysis of manic discourse, a task which has not been undertaken in other work; and to describe and refine a methodology suited to the …
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"In What Particular Thought to Work": Hamlet and Manic-Depression
… Hamlet may be demonstrated to be a Bi-Polar I Manic Depressive. Because current genetic research suggests that this disease is inherited, it is logical to ask if Claudius also suffers from this disorder. It can be demonstrated that he does. We may conclude that Claudius murdered the late King …
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Paranoid-Schizoid, Manic Defensive Society: Kleinian Psychodynamics in Contemporary Political Culture
… position, the depressive position and the manic defences. In order to identify this, news reports of Dominic Cummings’ journey to Durham from the 22nd May 2020 to the 27th May 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic shall be analysed. This analysis shall assess the psychosocial, cultural …
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"What ceremony of words can patch the havoc?": Manic-depression and the writings of Sylvia Plath
… can usefully be considered in relation to the manic-depression from which she probably suffered, particularly since there is biographical and autobiographical evidence for such a condition as it is clinically defined. For Plath, writing was an attempt to structure a life made tumultuous through …
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An evaluation of specific nursing interventions in the management of patients suffering from manic depressive psychosis
… management of women diagnosed as suffering from manic depressive psychosis. The thesis was presented in three parts.<br/><br/>In Part One, an examination was made of the role of the nurse in caring for patients suffering from affective disorder in general. Four substudies were used to define the …
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The electroencephalogram in manic-depressive psychosis : relationship to psychological features and implications for a toxic-organic pathogenesis.
… claim of Pauline Davis as to the correlation, in manic-depressive psychosis, between certain psychological and electroencephalographic features, notably alpha frequency and irregular fast low voltage records which she termed "choppy". The scope undertaking is, however, wider in as much as we shall …
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The electroencephalogram in manic-depressive psychosis : relationship to psychological features and implications for a toxic-organic pathogenesis
… claim of Pauline Davis as to the correlation, in manic-depressive psychosis, between certain psychological and electroencephalographic features, notably alpha frequency and irregular fast low voltage records which she termed "choppy". The scope of our undertaking is, however, wider in as much we …
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Magic to manic : the evolution of the zombie figure In fiction and its basis In moral panic dissemination
The lack of research into the Zombie figure in popular literature is examined in this study in contrast to the sociological and film studies of the genre. The value of the Zombie literary figure is examined as an example of cultural discourse using Bourdieu s field of cultural exchange framework. A …
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The Longitudinal Trajectory of Subclinical Manic Symptoms from Childhood to Adolescence and their Predictive Validity for Bipolar Disorder
… of the PhD was to examine whether subclinical manic symptoms are associated with subsequent onset BD and to identify the longitudinal trajectories associated with conversion to syndromal BD.<br/><br/>Methods<br/>I analyzed data from TRAILS (TRacking Adolescents’ Individuals Lives Survey), …
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Theory of Mind in Bipolar Disorder: A Pilot Descriptive Study
… is related to the severity of depressive, manic, or anxious symptoms Methods: A prospective, cross-sectional, study of ToM in patients with bipolar disorder experiencing mania (n = 14), depression (n = 25), or euthymia (n = 20), using the “Reading the Mind in the Eyes Task” (Eyes Task) and …
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Examining the Course of Cyclothymic Disorder and Comparing it to Dysthymic Disorder and Other Bipolar Spectrum Disorders in Children
… years as part of the Longitudinal Assessment of Manic Symptoms (LAMS) protocol. Primary outcomes for this analysis were depressive and manic symptom counts, severity and global functional impairment. Independent hierarchical linear models were used to estimate fixed effects of time, mood …
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Communication Disorder and Language Production in Schizophrenia
… Subjects were 43 hospitalized schizophrenic, manic, or schizoaffective-manic patients. All subjects completed an interview used to rate communication disorder and tasks designed to measure editing, discourse planning, and monitoring speech. Word-approximations and neologisms were related to …
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Case series of mania secondary to HIV/AIDS in patients at Chainama Hills College Hospital and University Teaching Hospital Lusaka, Zambia
Primary mania is the diagnostic label given to manic episodes that occur during the course of a Bipolar Disorder (Ghanem KG, 2008). Patients with secondary mania have manic-like episodes somewhat similar to those seen in Bipolar Disorder. (Lyketsos CG et al, 1997). However, these manic-like …
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Case series of mania secondary to HIV/AIDS in patients at Chainama Hills College Hospital and University Teaching Hospital Lusaka, Zambia
Primary mania is the diagnostic label given to manic episodes that occur during the course of a Bipolar Disorder (Ghanem KG, 2008). Patients with secondary mania have manic-like episodes somewhat similar to those seen in Bipolar Disorder. (Lyketsos CG et al, 1997). However, these manic-like …
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Fierce Flames and the Golden Lotus: Case Studies on the Madness and Creativity Connection
… including: syphilis, epilepsy, schizophenia and manic-depression/bi-polar disorder. The figures examined are Gustave Flaubert, Hector Berlioz, Friedrich Nietzsche, Rainer Maria Rilke, Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath.
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Fierce Flames and the Golden Lotus: Case Studies on the Madness and Creativity Connection
… including: syphilis, epilepsy, schizophenia and manic-depression/bi-polar disorder. The figures examined are Gustave Flaubert, Hector Berlioz, Friedrich Nietzsche, Rainer Maria Rilke, Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath.
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Mother’s Little Helper: A Memoir in Vignettes
… survival strategies and coping mechanisms to manic depression. Over a 30-year period, Betty Jane Cooksey had more than 40 recorded suicides attempts and 20 stays in intensive care. After shooting and killing her husband, Dub, in 1992, she was diagnosed with bipolar and borderline personality …
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Safety and Effectiveness of Antidepressants in Medicaid-Enrolled Pediatric Bipolar Depression
… with a higher number of lifetime episodes of manic and depressive phases, more comorbidities such as anxiety and substance abuse, rapid cycling between different phases, and higher incidence of suicide attempts compared to adulthood onset of bipolar disorder (Potter et al., 2009; Leverich et …
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Risk taking in bipolar disorder
… disorder can make suboptimal decisions during manic and depressive episodes which can have negative long-term consequences. This review aims to explore individual factors, including mood state and personality traits, which could affect decision making processes of individuals with bipolar …
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