Depersonalization in accident victims and psychiatric patients.

Author(s)
Noyes, R. Hoenk, P.R. Kuperman, S. & Slymen, D.J.
Year
Abstract

A transient depersonalization was identified in nearly on third of persons exposed to life-threatening danger (accident victims) and close to 40 per cent of a group of hospitalized psychiatric patients. Although the syndrome was similar in these populations, mental clouding developed more commonly among patients and alertness was more prominent among accident victims. Anxiety was significantly associated with the development of depersonalization among psychiatric patients and was almost certainly a factor in its appearance among accident victims. The findings suggest that this syndrome is a specific response to extreme danger or its associated anxiety.

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951910 ST [electronic version only]
Source

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, Vol. 164 (1977), No. 6, p. 401-407, 18 ref.

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