Delusional Atmosphere, The Psychotic Prodrome and Decontextualized Memories

Psychosis, Trauma and Dissociation: Emerging Perspectives on Severe Psychopathology

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 65-78

  Moskowitz, Andrew ^a,b   Nadel, Lynn ^c   Watts, Peter ^d   Jacobs, W Jake ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL CORNHILL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d NONE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Childhood trauma and later schizophrenia; Deficits in explicit or autobiographical memory and intact implicit memory; delusional atmosphere; Freud's feeling of 'uncanniness'; Jacobs and Nadel's model to delusional atmosphere; Multiple memory systems and the hippocampus; Perceptual or perceived environmental changes in psychotic prodrome; Phobias, panic attacks and post traumatic stress disorder; Psychotic episodes in periods of stress; Wahnstimmung or 'Delusional Atmosphere' (DA)

Indexed keywords

EID: 73849094527     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470699652.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

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