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Objective:To investigate the episodic future thinking in patients with schizophrenia from three per-spectives including the specificity,emotional valence,and content.Methods:Totally 25 patients with schizophrenia who met the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder,Fourth Edition (DSM-Ⅳ)criteria and 25 healthy controls matched with gender,age,and years of education participated in this study.The Sentence Completion for E-vents in the Future Test (SCEFT)was used to test episodic future thinking.Results:Schizophrenia patients showed deficits in episodic future thinking[(0.13 ±0.10)vs.(0.31 ±0.12),P <0.01].They had problems in imaging the specific events even after controlling for working memory and verbal memory [F(1,54)=6.60,P <0.05].More-over,they generated less positive events compared with the healthy controls [(0.36 ±0.20)vs.(0.48 ±0.16),P <0.01].As to the content,schizophrenia patients generated more events about hospitalization [0 (0,0.64)vs.0,P <0.01],more events that were unclassifiable [0.36 (0.09,0.64)vs.0.09 (0,0.36),P <0.01],and less events re-lated with personal career [0 (0,0.27)vs.0.18 (0,0.45),P <0.01].Conclusion:It suggests that schizophrenia patients show deficits in episodic future thinking.They have problems in imaging the specific events,and they have more negative thinking.
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"Postpartum Body pain"refers to such symptoms as body pain,numbness,heaviness,arthralgia and even paralysis in a woman during the postpartum period.Besides the above symptoms,the patient may also have other symptoms like sleep disorder,emotional hindrance,somatization symptoms such as fatigue,sleepy,and chest distress,etc.This disease may be considered as somatization symptoms due to postpartum depression,but actually it is a psychogenic disorder.Clinical observation showed there were no clinical changes of objective signs such as red,swelling and fever;Laboratory examinations showed there was no ahnormal manifestation.This article primarily discussed"postpagtum body pain"from medicopsychological angle,hoping to help people get a right recognition of this disease.
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The article aims to introduce a creative desensitization therapy to enrich modem clinic psychological treatment. The imaginary desensitization in the static state of Qigong is one method of the systemic Chinese medicine psychological treatments (SPT). It is suitable for the Chinese cultural background and the psychological characteristics of Chinese people.
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Objective To explore the construction of TCM psychological crisis interventional theoretical system.Methods Based on the experience of TCM psychological medical group participated in the crisis intervention therapy after the earthquake,we draw a theoretical conclusion and made arrangement from the perspective of the disciplinary development of TCM psychology.Result We developed some assumptions to build the TCM psychological crisis intervention theory which conformed to the Chinese situation.Conclusion The building of crisis intervention theory must conform to Chinese situation and Can be applicable to lead the practice.The theory in this article should be enriched and improved in practice later.