Assessment of the adaptive personal potential of the patients with paranoid schizophrenia.

OBJECTIVE

The aim: assessment of the patients with paranoid schizophrenia adaptive personal potential.

PATIENTS AND

METHODS

Materials and methods: Clinical-anamnestic method, questionnaires for determining "structural ego-states" by J. Hey, of the "drivers" by M. Cox, of the "personal adaptations" by Joines, for determining the "crisis moments of development" by J.I. Clark, statistical analysis of the results data. 164 patients with a newly diagnosed and episodic paranoid schizophrenia took part in this study.

RESULTS

Results

"Passive behavior" serves as a typical door for contact by 88% of the patients. According to the methodologies of determination of the "drivers" the following results were received: "make the others happy" - 28%, "be strong" - 76%, "be perfect" - 65%, "make efforts" - 5% "hurry up" - 15%; of "crisis moments in development" determination, 61% were determined as "stuck" in the 1st stage of the development. By 74%, there was a "script prohibition", "do not be close." By 72% there was a "prohibition" "do not have feelings". The prevailing combinations of the "personal adaptations" were "schizoid" (92%) and "paranoid" (81%).

CONCLUSION

Conclusions

schizophrenia can be viewed as a defensive reaction. The "ego- states of the controlling parent" and "adaptive child" dominate. The dominant "drivers" are "make the others happy" and "be strong." Typical "script prohibitions" are "do not be close," "do not feel," "do not think" and "do not be healthy." The typical "personal adaptations" of the patients are "schizoid" and "paranoic".