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| Research article summary (published 30 Dec 2002): |
Intolerance of ambiguity and statothymia in manic-depressives.
Full Abstract
Shimoda described praesenile melancholics (monopolar (endogenous) depressives) and manic-depressives on the level of personality traits in a very similar way as certain clinical observations and empirical studies showed. We summarized these results under the heading of a role-theoretical, emotional, and cognitive intolerance of ambiguity (IA). IA as a characteristic not only of the melancholic and manic type of personality but also of clinical phenomena of depressive and manic phases, corresponds to what Shimoda on a more structural level calls a 'sticking to ideas and feelings.' This is meant with his notion of "statothymia". Shimoda's neurophysiological theory supposes an abnormality of the excitability of affects. In our view, IA is a consequence of the special identity formation of these patients. It is a coping mechanism as well as a vulnerability factor.
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Author/s: Kraus, Alfed (A);
Affiliation: University Hospital of Heidelberg.
Journal and publication information
Publication Type: Journal Article; Review
Journal: Seishin shinkeigaku zasshi = Psychiatria et neurologia Japonica (Seishin Shinkeigaku Zasshi), published in Japan. (Language: eng)
Reference: 2003-; vol 105 (issue 5) : pp 516-21
Dates: Created 2003/07/23; Completed 2003/10/02; Revised 2005/11/16;
PMID: 12875217, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)
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