О.С. Куликова

CHARACTERISTICS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL DEFENSE MECHANISMS IN FIRST EPISODE OF PARANOID SCHIZOPHRENIA

Authors

О.С. Куликова

Keywords:

psychopathological vulnerability, psychological defense mechanisms, first episode of paranoid schizophrenia

Abstract

This article is devoted to experimental study of characteristics of psychological defense mechanisms in first episode of paranoid schizophrenia. We have recruited 80 participants with first-episode of paranoid schizophrenia and 50 participants without mental illness for study of capabilities of social adaption and specifics of psychological defense. As a result of comparison study we find out the statistically significant differences between our groups with more pronounced and nonselective functioning of psychological defense in first-episode of paranoid schizophrenia. We use the conception of psychopathological vulnerability and we consider these characteristics of psychological defense in first-episode of paranoid schizophrenia to be a premorbid factor of stress vulnerability and of predisposition to mental illness

CHARACTERISTICS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL DEFENSE MECHANISMS IN FIRST EPISODE OF PARANOID SCHIZOPHRENIA