Zusammenfassung Ziel der Studie Trotz erfolgreicher Operation klagt ungefähr jeder Fünfte Patient... more Zusammenfassung Ziel der Studie Trotz erfolgreicher Operation klagt ungefähr jeder Fünfte Patient nach einem Kniegelenkersatz fortwährend über chronische Schmerzen. Vorangegangene Studien diskutieren in diesem Zusammenhang, dass operative Eingriffe bei einigen Patienten postoperativen traumatischen Stress auslösen. In dieser explorativen Untersuchung soll festgestellt werden, ob nach Totalem Kniegelenkersatz postoperative Dissoziation als Ausdruck von postoperativen traumatischem Stress (neu)auftritt. Außerdem soll untersucht werden, ob diese Patienten nach einem Jahr häufiger chronische postoperative Schmerzen aufweisen und inwiefern sich der Schmerzverlauf zu den anderen Patienten unterscheidet. Methodik Es wurden 201 Patienten untersucht, die eine primäre Knie-TEP erhielten. Sie beantworteten zu 3 Messzeitpunkten u. a. Fragebögen zu Knie-Schmerzen (WOMAC) und zur Feststellung von Dissoziation (FDS-20): 1 Tag präoperativ (T1), 10 Wochen postoperativ (T2) und 1 Jahr postoperativ (T...
Affective stimulation entails changes in brain network patterns at rest, but it is unknown whethe... more Affective stimulation entails changes in brain network patterns at rest, but it is unknown whether exogenous emotional stimulation has a prolonged effect on the temporal dynamics of endogenous cortical arousal. We therefore investigated differences in cortical arousal in the listener following stimulation with different attachment-related narratives. Resting-state EEG was recorded from sixteen healthy subjects for ten minutes each with eyes closed: first at baseline and then after passively listening to three affective narratives from strangers about their early childhood experiences (prototypical for insecure-dismissing, insecure-preoccupied, and secure attachment). Using the VIGALL 2.1 algorithm, low or high vigilance stages in consecutive EEG segments were classified, and their dynamic profile was analyzed. Questionnaires assessed the listeners' emotional response to the content of the narrative. As a general effect of preceding affective stimulation, vigilance following the ...
Zeitschrift für klinische Psychologie, Psychopathologie und Psychotherapie / im Auftrag der Görres-Gesellschaft
Texts of schizophrenic speakers show significantly more incoherence than those of patients with n... more Texts of schizophrenic speakers show significantly more incoherence than those of patients with non-schizophrenic syndromes and normals. In our theory incoherence means a disorder in the implicitly dialogical structure of texts. It is based on deficits in the capacity of taking the role of the other person in social communication. These deficits can be conceived as a common structure of schizophrenic speech disorders and the symptoms of ego-dissociation typically found in schizophrenia. The author supposes, that the deficits in the process of role-taking in social context are caused by fundamental disturbances in self-awareness and self-consciousness of schizophrenics. These disturbances are called Grundverhältnisstörung.
Paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis is seldom mentioned in the psychiatric literature and premorte... more Paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis is seldom mentioned in the psychiatric literature and premortem diagnosis is rare. Affective symptoms, agitation, and memory impairment are the core features, which can predate the diagnosis of carcinoma. We report the case of a patient with bronchial carcinoma, whose clinical picture could hardly be distinguished from that of endogenous schizophrenia.
Zeitschrift für klinische Psychologie, Psychopathologie und Psychotherapie / im Auftrag der Görres-Gesellschaft
Psychic crises alter the personal identity as a whole in the sense of a global loss of relations ... more Psychic crises alter the personal identity as a whole in the sense of a global loss of relations and orientations. Thus they represent problems of personal values, which cannot sufficiently be described in terms of criteria and behavior orientated diagnostic systems, which believe according to the philosophy of logical empiricism, that psychiatric and psychotherapeutic diagnoses can be conceived as genus and logical classes. As alternatives we discuss two other approaches: the prototype theory and the ideal type theory. The more attractive one of the two approaches seems to be Max Weber's theory of act, not only for it's acceptance in contemporary social sciences, but also because it enables the integration of qualitative and quantitative empirical research, aspects of subjectivity and personal identity, and--last not least--socio-cultural aspects. As a result of these methodological considerations the author developed the research paradigm of qualitative diagnostic research. The application of this approach to psychic crises will be discussed at the end of the article.
The very rich, extensive, and complex work of the psychologist, doctor of medicine, and politicia... more The very rich, extensive, and complex work of the psychologist, doctor of medicine, and politician Willy Hellpach (1877-1955) is largely forgotten today. Our article sheds light upon his contribution to the nosology of neuroses, which emphasizes the impact of history, society, and culture on the neurotic syndromes. Hellpach states that during the process of civilisation hysteria is more and more replaced by nervousness. In contemporary nosology this hypothesis leads to the discussion how the relationship of neuroses with depressive symptomatology on the one hand and neuroses with panic attacks and phobia on the other should be conceptualised.
This article on the German economist and sociologist Max Weber (1864-1920) continues our pathogra... more This article on the German economist and sociologist Max Weber (1864-1920) continues our pathographic and psychohistoric studies on the interrelations between his life, his illness, and his work on "Protestantic Ethics and the Spirit of Capitalism". In a former paper (Frommer u. Frommer, 1993) we focussed on Weber's definition of modern society as an "iron cage" determined by Western rationalism. His theory, which shows that this cultural background demands a great amount of role conformity from the individual, converges with current psychopathological approaches on the personality of depressed patients. In the second article we report on results of our research on further personal documents, and some medical certificates by Weber's physicians. These documents demonstrate the diagnosis of a severe depression in a narcisstic and hypernomic personality.
More than a decennium after the reunion of East and West Germany, the psychological sequelae of t... more More than a decennium after the reunion of East and West Germany, the psychological sequelae of traumatic experiences of East Germans are still evident. There were not only about 300 000 people imprisoned for political reasons in the German Democratic Republic between 1945 and 1989, partly exposed to physical and psychological torture, but also much more people subject of subthreshold traumatic experiences by harassment in public and private life. As a result, under a psychiatric perspective it should be taken into account not only specific post-traumatic stress disorders (PTSD), characterized by relieving of the traumata in intrusive flashbacks, avoidance of circumstances associated with the traumatic experiences, and increased psychological sensitivity and arousal, but also specific Adjustment disorders, or cultural shocks: many people of the former GDR had to deal with adjustment difficulties of different types to the new cultural environment after the reunion, which could be characterized as becoming intimate with post-modern Western culture within a process of identity development. This process encloses different phases or stages discussed under psychopathologic and psychodynamic perspective.
2012 IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing, Communication and Computing (ICSPCC 2012), 2012
ABSTRACT Human Computer Interaction (HCI) is known to be a multimodal process. In this paper we w... more ABSTRACT Human Computer Interaction (HCI) is known to be a multimodal process. In this paper we will show results of experiments for affect recognition, with non-acted, affective multimodal data from the new Last Minute Corpus (LMC). This corpus is more related to real HCI applications than other known data sets where affective behavior is elicited untypically for HCI.We utilize features from three modalities: facial expressions, prosody and gesture. The results show, that even simple fusion architectures can reach respectable results compared to other approaches. Further we could show, that probably not all features and modalities contribute substantially to the classification process, where prosody and eye blink frequency seem most contributing in the analyzed dataset.
Zusammenfassung Ziel der Studie Trotz erfolgreicher Operation klagt ungefähr jeder Fünfte Patient... more Zusammenfassung Ziel der Studie Trotz erfolgreicher Operation klagt ungefähr jeder Fünfte Patient nach einem Kniegelenkersatz fortwährend über chronische Schmerzen. Vorangegangene Studien diskutieren in diesem Zusammenhang, dass operative Eingriffe bei einigen Patienten postoperativen traumatischen Stress auslösen. In dieser explorativen Untersuchung soll festgestellt werden, ob nach Totalem Kniegelenkersatz postoperative Dissoziation als Ausdruck von postoperativen traumatischem Stress (neu)auftritt. Außerdem soll untersucht werden, ob diese Patienten nach einem Jahr häufiger chronische postoperative Schmerzen aufweisen und inwiefern sich der Schmerzverlauf zu den anderen Patienten unterscheidet. Methodik Es wurden 201 Patienten untersucht, die eine primäre Knie-TEP erhielten. Sie beantworteten zu 3 Messzeitpunkten u. a. Fragebögen zu Knie-Schmerzen (WOMAC) und zur Feststellung von Dissoziation (FDS-20): 1 Tag präoperativ (T1), 10 Wochen postoperativ (T2) und 1 Jahr postoperativ (T...
Affective stimulation entails changes in brain network patterns at rest, but it is unknown whethe... more Affective stimulation entails changes in brain network patterns at rest, but it is unknown whether exogenous emotional stimulation has a prolonged effect on the temporal dynamics of endogenous cortical arousal. We therefore investigated differences in cortical arousal in the listener following stimulation with different attachment-related narratives. Resting-state EEG was recorded from sixteen healthy subjects for ten minutes each with eyes closed: first at baseline and then after passively listening to three affective narratives from strangers about their early childhood experiences (prototypical for insecure-dismissing, insecure-preoccupied, and secure attachment). Using the VIGALL 2.1 algorithm, low or high vigilance stages in consecutive EEG segments were classified, and their dynamic profile was analyzed. Questionnaires assessed the listeners' emotional response to the content of the narrative. As a general effect of preceding affective stimulation, vigilance following the ...
Zeitschrift für klinische Psychologie, Psychopathologie und Psychotherapie / im Auftrag der Görres-Gesellschaft
Texts of schizophrenic speakers show significantly more incoherence than those of patients with n... more Texts of schizophrenic speakers show significantly more incoherence than those of patients with non-schizophrenic syndromes and normals. In our theory incoherence means a disorder in the implicitly dialogical structure of texts. It is based on deficits in the capacity of taking the role of the other person in social communication. These deficits can be conceived as a common structure of schizophrenic speech disorders and the symptoms of ego-dissociation typically found in schizophrenia. The author supposes, that the deficits in the process of role-taking in social context are caused by fundamental disturbances in self-awareness and self-consciousness of schizophrenics. These disturbances are called Grundverhältnisstörung.
Paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis is seldom mentioned in the psychiatric literature and premorte... more Paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis is seldom mentioned in the psychiatric literature and premortem diagnosis is rare. Affective symptoms, agitation, and memory impairment are the core features, which can predate the diagnosis of carcinoma. We report the case of a patient with bronchial carcinoma, whose clinical picture could hardly be distinguished from that of endogenous schizophrenia.
Zeitschrift für klinische Psychologie, Psychopathologie und Psychotherapie / im Auftrag der Görres-Gesellschaft
Psychic crises alter the personal identity as a whole in the sense of a global loss of relations ... more Psychic crises alter the personal identity as a whole in the sense of a global loss of relations and orientations. Thus they represent problems of personal values, which cannot sufficiently be described in terms of criteria and behavior orientated diagnostic systems, which believe according to the philosophy of logical empiricism, that psychiatric and psychotherapeutic diagnoses can be conceived as genus and logical classes. As alternatives we discuss two other approaches: the prototype theory and the ideal type theory. The more attractive one of the two approaches seems to be Max Weber's theory of act, not only for it's acceptance in contemporary social sciences, but also because it enables the integration of qualitative and quantitative empirical research, aspects of subjectivity and personal identity, and--last not least--socio-cultural aspects. As a result of these methodological considerations the author developed the research paradigm of qualitative diagnostic research. The application of this approach to psychic crises will be discussed at the end of the article.
The very rich, extensive, and complex work of the psychologist, doctor of medicine, and politicia... more The very rich, extensive, and complex work of the psychologist, doctor of medicine, and politician Willy Hellpach (1877-1955) is largely forgotten today. Our article sheds light upon his contribution to the nosology of neuroses, which emphasizes the impact of history, society, and culture on the neurotic syndromes. Hellpach states that during the process of civilisation hysteria is more and more replaced by nervousness. In contemporary nosology this hypothesis leads to the discussion how the relationship of neuroses with depressive symptomatology on the one hand and neuroses with panic attacks and phobia on the other should be conceptualised.
This article on the German economist and sociologist Max Weber (1864-1920) continues our pathogra... more This article on the German economist and sociologist Max Weber (1864-1920) continues our pathographic and psychohistoric studies on the interrelations between his life, his illness, and his work on "Protestantic Ethics and the Spirit of Capitalism". In a former paper (Frommer u. Frommer, 1993) we focussed on Weber's definition of modern society as an "iron cage" determined by Western rationalism. His theory, which shows that this cultural background demands a great amount of role conformity from the individual, converges with current psychopathological approaches on the personality of depressed patients. In the second article we report on results of our research on further personal documents, and some medical certificates by Weber's physicians. These documents demonstrate the diagnosis of a severe depression in a narcisstic and hypernomic personality.
More than a decennium after the reunion of East and West Germany, the psychological sequelae of t... more More than a decennium after the reunion of East and West Germany, the psychological sequelae of traumatic experiences of East Germans are still evident. There were not only about 300 000 people imprisoned for political reasons in the German Democratic Republic between 1945 and 1989, partly exposed to physical and psychological torture, but also much more people subject of subthreshold traumatic experiences by harassment in public and private life. As a result, under a psychiatric perspective it should be taken into account not only specific post-traumatic stress disorders (PTSD), characterized by relieving of the traumata in intrusive flashbacks, avoidance of circumstances associated with the traumatic experiences, and increased psychological sensitivity and arousal, but also specific Adjustment disorders, or cultural shocks: many people of the former GDR had to deal with adjustment difficulties of different types to the new cultural environment after the reunion, which could be characterized as becoming intimate with post-modern Western culture within a process of identity development. This process encloses different phases or stages discussed under psychopathologic and psychodynamic perspective.
2012 IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing, Communication and Computing (ICSPCC 2012), 2012
ABSTRACT Human Computer Interaction (HCI) is known to be a multimodal process. In this paper we w... more ABSTRACT Human Computer Interaction (HCI) is known to be a multimodal process. In this paper we will show results of experiments for affect recognition, with non-acted, affective multimodal data from the new Last Minute Corpus (LMC). This corpus is more related to real HCI applications than other known data sets where affective behavior is elicited untypically for HCI.We utilize features from three modalities: facial expressions, prosody and gesture. The results show, that even simple fusion architectures can reach respectable results compared to other approaches. Further we could show, that probably not all features and modalities contribute substantially to the classification process, where prosody and eye blink frequency seem most contributing in the analyzed dataset.
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