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Dream reflection of mental illness ...from the point of view of daseinsanalysis
Pavlovský, Pavel ; Junková, Vendula (advisor) ; Šípek, Jiří (referee)
This paper presents 12 individual case studies representing three different psychiatric diagnoses: depression, schizophrenia, and phobia. The collected data suggests that aspects of each one of the disorders covered are somehow reflected in the dreams and dream existence of the patients. Based on repeated in-depth interviews (n=48) with each of the participants (n=12), it is clear that dream content often repeats in each individual. Further phenomenological and qualitative content analysis revealed repetition of characteristic dream content (feelings, phenomenon, and existentials) in each of the three groups. While more research is needed, the results suggest dream content could be a significant tool in establishing a diagnosis and in aiding the psycho-therapeutic process.
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Latent toxoplasmosis as a risk factor for the development of schizophrenia and a modulator of its course
Holub, David ; Libiger, Jan (advisor) ; Přikryl, Radovan (referee) ; Pavlovský, Pavel (referee)
Schizophrenia is serious, multifactorial and chronic disease. The crucial tasks to introduce effective preventive, diagnostic and treatment measures is to identify etiology factors, their interaction and etiology factors-genetic predispositon interactions. TG (Toxoplasma gondii) is the most promising infectious candidate with "schizophrenogenic" potential. Toxoplasmosis is a lifelong parasitosis considered as a risk factor to schizophrenia. No consistent clinical pattern has been detected in Toxoplasma-infected schizophrenia patients as yet. We assessed symptom profile, cognitive performance and treatment response of Toxoplasma- infected and Toxoplasma-free schizophrenia patients to determine whether co-occurrence of schizophrenia and Toxoplasma infection modifies clinical presentation and the course of schizophrenia. We screened for anti-Toxoplasma antibodies in 251 patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorder consecutively admitted to Prague Psychiatric Centre between 2000 and 2010. Fifty-seven patients were infected (22.7%). Infected patients spent more days in hospital during their last admission compared to uninfected ones (p=0,003; mean difference 32.9 days). Schizophrenia started approximately one year earlier in infected men and about 3 years later in infected women. This corresponds to sex related...
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Dream reflection of mental illness ...from the point of view of daseinsanalysis
Pavlovský, Pavel ; Junková, Vendula (advisor) ; Šípek, Jiří (referee)
This paper presents 12 individual case studies representing three different psychiatric diagnoses: depression, schizophrenia, and phobia. The collected data suggests that aspects of each one of the disorders covered are somehow reflected in the dreams and dream existence of the patients. Based on repeated in-depth interviews (n=48) with each of the participants (n=12), it is clear that dream content often repeats in each individual. Further phenomenological and qualitative content analysis revealed repetition of characteristic dream content (feelings, phenomenon, and existentials) in each of the three groups. While more research is needed, the results suggest dream content could be a significant tool in establishing a diagnosis and in aiding the psycho-therapeutic process.
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