Depersonalization and psychosensory disorders amongst young people who do not seek psychiatric help appeal for psychiatrysts (prevalence, clinical features and classification)
- Authors: Ruzhenkova V.V.1, Ruzhenkov V.A.1, Bykova A.A.1, Kolosova M.A.1
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Affiliations:
- Belgorod State National Research University
- Issue: Vol 26, No 1 (2018)
- Pages: 70-85
- Section: Psychology, clinical psychology, neurology, psychiatry, narcology
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/pavlovj/article/view/8752
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.23888/PAVLOVJ201826170-85
- ID: 8752
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Abstract
The importance of this study is justified by the high occurance frequency of this phenomenon amongst young people in the clinical structure of mental disorders and as well as in the framework of psychological defense mechanisms in psychiatrically healthy population. The question of the limits of depersonalization remains unresolved, as there is no single point of view regarding the syndromological affiliation, rendering it ambiguous to evaluate it as a productive or negative disorder.
Aim. This study was aimed at verifying the prevalence and clinical structure of depersonalization symptoms amongst young people.
Materials and Methods. A continuous sample consisting of 96 medical students – 68 (71%) female and 28 (29%) male, from 18 to 23 (19±1.2) years was studied using medico-social, clinico-psychopathological, psychometric and statistical methods.
Results. Depersonalization symptoms were found amongst 94% of respondents. Different forms of autopsychic depersonalization were identified in the different psyche spheres – effector-volitional sphere, thinking and self-awareness (except the depersonalization in emotional sphere – «pathological insensitivity», which were previously identified). The validity of their separation was confirmed by cluster analysis. Along with depersonalization disorders, in more than half of the cases, a variety of psychosensory disorders were observed.
Conclusions. Depersonalization phenomena along with various psychosensory disorders are widespread amongst adolescents without obvious mental disorders or gender preference. Therapy is useful if depersonalization obstructs social functioning and coupled with anxiety and depression.
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V. V. Ruzhenkova
Belgorod State National Research University
Author for correspondence.
Email: ruzhenkova@bsu.edu.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1740-4904
SPIN-code: 8424-7632
PhD., Associate Professor of the Department of Psychiatry, Narcology and Clinical Psychology
Russian Federation, 85, Pobeda street, Belgorod, 308015V. A. Ruzhenkov
Belgorod State National Research University
Email: ruzhenkov@bsu.edu.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6903-9697
SPIN-code: 1274-7247
MD, Grand PhD, Professor, Head of the Department of Psychiatry, Narcology and Clinical Psychology
Russian Federation, 85, Pobeda street, Belgorod, 308015A. A. Bykova
Belgorod State National Research University
Email: ruzhenkov@bsu.edu.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-1841-7536
SPIN-code: 9491-0917
6th year student of the Medical Institute
Russian Federation, 85, Pobeda street, Belgorod, 308015M. A. Kolosova
Belgorod State National Research University
Email: kolosova@bsu.edu.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9748-4907
SPIN-code: 3484-7021
PhD., Senior Lecturer of the Department of Psychiatry, Narcology and Clinical Psychology
Russian Federation, 85, Pobeda street, Belgorod, 308015References
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