Search for dissertations about: "psychosis"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 113 swedish dissertations containing the word psychosis.

2. 16. Managing the contradictions : Recovery from severe mental disorders

   Author : Alain Topor; Anders Bergmark; John Strauss; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Psychosis; severe mental disorder; schizophrenia; recovery; users perspective; Social work; Socialt arbete; Social Work; socialt arbete;

   Abstract : One of the assumptions made when mental problems are defined as a medical problem is that certain problems, certain diagnoses, are chronic. Nevertheless, a substantial number of follow-up studies have shown that the course of development in patients with these diagnoses is neither uniform nor chronic. READ MORE

4. 17. Patterns of Repetition and Change in a Psychoanalytically Informed Therapeutic Environment for Severely Disturbed Patients

   Author : Andrzej Werbart; Per Vaglum; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Psychotherapy research; psychosis; personality disorders; therapeutic community; ward atmosphere; therapeutic alliance; concordance; separation; working through; termination; outcome.; Psychology; Psykologi;

   Abstract : Factors in the environment and therapeutic relationship which facilitate, as well as those which obstruct the process of psychic change were investigated in patients with psychoses or severe personality disorders, starting from a preliminary theoretical model for psychoanalytically oriented treatment. Ten patients consecutively admitted to a Swedish therapeutic community, Bikupan, and who completed the treatment, as well as their 9 therapists were studied in detail during, and up to five years after the treatment. READ MORE

5. 18. Biomarkers of suicide risk in psychosis

   Author : Andreas Carlborg; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
   Keywords : Gender; CSF; 5-HIAA; HVA; psychosis; survival; schizophrenia; suicide; suicide attempt; long-term follow-up; early death; KYNA;

   Abstract : Suicide and attempted suicide are major health problems. Approximately 1400 people die from suicide every year in Sweden and ten times more attempt suicide. Patients with schizophrenia spectrum psychosis have an increased risk of suicide and suicide rates have been suggested to be as high as 10%. READ MORE

6. 19. Neuropsychological Aspects of First-Episode Psychosis : Diagnosis, Course and Outcome

   Author : Roger Carlsson; Institutionen för psykologi; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; cognitive functions; neuropsychology; First Episode Psychosis; schizophrenia; outcome; predictors;

   Abstract : The present thesis is based on studies of neuropsychological functions in first episode psychosis patients (FEP) from the Swedish multicenter study, the Parachute Project. The thesis aims to clarify neuropsychological functions in psychotic illnesses. READ MORE

7. 20. Mental Health and Neurobehavioral Function in Young Adult Offspring of Women with a History of Psychosis and Control Offspring

   Author : Erland Schubert; Avdelningen för arbets- och miljömedicin; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Psychiatry; klinisk psykologi; Psykiatri; psykosomatik; clinical psychology; visual dysfunction; neuropsychological function; neurological abnormality; neurodevelopment; mental disturbance; high-risk; genetic; schizophrenia; affective psychosis; psychosomatics;

   Abstract : Schizophrenia is now generally considered to be a brain disease resulting from disturbed neurodevelopment, mediated by genetic and/or adverse events in utero and/or in early childhood. This process manifests itself in schizophrenia in young adulthood, when the brain completes its maturation. READ MORE