
Study of cenesthesias and body image aberration in schizophrenia
Author(s) -
Gaurav Rajender,
Krishna Kanwal,
Dinesh Malkhan Singh Rathore,
Deepa Chaudhary
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
indian journal of psychiatry/indian journal of psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.485
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1998-3794
pISSN - 0019-5545
DOI - 10.4103/0019-5545.55086
Subject(s) - depersonalization , psychopathology , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , psychology , positive and negative syndrome scale , clinical psychology , feeling , paranoid schizophrenia , psychiatry , weakness , medicine , psychosis , surgery , emotional exhaustion , social psychology , burnout
Abnormal body sensations are reported frequently by schizophrenic patients. Cenesthesias are infrequently recognized and diagnosis of cenesthopathic schizophrenia is rarely made. There are very few studies regarding the same.