Content on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Eating Disorders, and the Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology can be found in the following subdirectories:
Joaquín Díaz Atienza: To define what is abnormal, we must first have a very clear understanding of what is considered normal. If this is already difficult in biomedicine, it presents a real challenge in the fields of psychiatry and clinical psychology…
I) Quantitative Disorders The study of altered states of consciousness has undergone significant changes over time, resulting in various classifications. The one I present below is yet another. I believe the most important thing is that we know…
Qualitative Disorders. Some authors included twilight and confusional states under the heading of delirious states, since they considered that to some extent these alterations of consciousness presented activity close to delirium. Currently, this term has…
Alterations in the Experience of the Bodily Self. In this section, we will mention two psychopathological situations. The first refers to the experience of one's own self and its environment, and the second to alterations in the experience of the bodily self.
1. Quantitative Disorders. Advances in cognitive psychology and neuroscience have provided a wealth of knowledge about the processes involved in memory. These have led to the understanding that, while retaining the same names for…
2. Qualitative Disorders This section refers to memory disturbances related to oneself or others, consisting of distortions of memory. These can be paramnesias (significant modifications of memory occur) and pseudoamnesias (…
CONTENTS Introduction Scharfetter defines attention as "the (active or passive) orientation of consciousness toward something that is experienced. Concentration is the focused persistence of attention." Therefore, for this author, attention would be the center of…
INTRODUCTION Perception is a mental activity by which a person is able to grasp the meaning of stimuli received through the senses (taste, hearing, smell, sight, and smell). These stimuli can be external…
PERCEPTUAL DISTORTIONS We call perceptual distortions those that occur when, in the presence of a stimulus or object in the sensory field, we produce modifications in its intensity, quality, form, or affective component. Not all perceptual distortions are pathological.
DECEPTIONS OR PERCEPTUAL ERRORS In this last section we briefly present the most characteristic psychopathological activity in psychiatry; although many of the phenomena described here can occur in normal subjects who are exposed to stressful or emotional situations…
Jaspers said that we do not perceive space and time as objects, but rather we perceive them with objects. The fact that both space and time are perceived with objects means that we can find their psychopathological expressions…
Joaquín Díaz Atienza INTRODUCTION These are the psychopathological symptoms that have received the most attention from clinicians because they have been considered the core of schizophrenia. In fact, Kurt Schneider considers them "first-order" symptoms. Some authors even go so far as to…
