Showing papers by "Israel Liberzon published in 1992"

Measurement of depression and negative symptoms in schizophrenia.

Abstract: The validity of the Hamilton Depression Scale (HAM-D) as a measure of depressive symptomatology in schizophrenic patients is questionable since it was not developed for this purpose, nor has it been validated in a schizophrenic population. Accordingly, 80 schizophrenic inpatients were administered the HAM-D, the 18-item Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS), and the Scale for the Assessment of Negative Symptoms (SANS) at drug-free baseline and after 4 weeks of neuroleptic treatment. The findings revealed that the HAM-D total score was nonspecific, while individual HAM-D subfactors provided a better index of various symptom complexes. The HAM-D contained a depressive factor that correlated strongly with the BPRS depression factor and a negative symptom factor that correlated strongly with the SANS and the BPRS negative symptom factor. These findings suggest the need to utilize specific assessment techniques rather than global measures when assessing depression in schizophrenia.

Very brief psychotherapy in the psychiatric consultation setting.

Abstract: Very brief psychotherapy has emerged as a unique treatment modality in recent years. The limited time frame dictates flexibility in the choice of therapeutic technique, but there exists a need for an assessment model to link specific technique with the clinical problem. An early psychotherapeutic formulation containing three parts is the central component of the assessment model: theoretical description of the problem, immediate goal, and intervention technique. Various theories of psychopathology and therapeutic techniques can be simultaneously applied to the clinical problem. Three cases illustrate the use of this model in a consultation/liaison setting.