Open AccessSelf-reference in psychosis and depression: a language marker of illness
Author(s) -
Sarah K. Fineberg,
Jacob Leavitt,
Sasha DeutschLink,
S. Dealy,
Christopher D. Landry,
K. Pirruccio,
Steven J. Shea,
Stacy A. Trent,
Guillermo A. Cecchi,
Philip R. Corlett
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
psychological medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.857
H-Index - 209
eISSN - 1469-8978
pISSN - 0033-2917
DOI - 10.1017/s0033291716001215
Subject(s) - psychosis , psychology , mental illness , lexical analysis , clinical psychology , psychiatry , developmental psychology , cognitive psychology , mental health , linguistics , philosophy
Language use is of increasing interest in the study of mental illness. Analytical approaches range from phenomenological and qualitative to formal computational quantitative methods. Practically, the approach may have utility in predicting clinical outcomes. We harnessed a real-world sample (blog entries) from groups with psychosis, strong beliefs, odd beliefs, illness, mental illness and/or social isolation to validate and extend laboratory findings about lexical differences between psychosis and control subjects.