1987/08/01 by Peter F. Liddle · 3 citations
Medicine · Arts and Humanities · Psychology · #Schizophrenia research and treatment #Mental Health and Psychiatry #Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders #Psychomotor learning #Poverty #Affect (linguistics) #Schizophrenia (object-oriented programming) #Psychology #Social withdrawal #Psychomotor disorder #Persistence (discontinuity) #Psychiatry #Clinical psychology #Developmental psychology #Cognition #Communication
paper · doi:10.1192/bjp.151.2.145
openalex publication_date 1987/08/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/01
The relationships between symptoms in 40 schizophrenic patients, selected for persistence of symptoms, were examined. The symptoms segregated into three syndromes: psychomotor poverty (poverty of speech, lack of spontaneous movement and various aspects of blunting of affect); disorganisation (inappropriate affect, poverty of content of speech, and disturbances of the form of thought); and reality distortion (particular types of delusions and hallucinations). Both the psychomotor poverty and disorganisation syndromes were associated with social and occupational impairment; in particular, the psychomotor poverty syndrome was associated with impairment of personal relationships, and the disorganisation syndrome with poor self-care and impersistence at work.