ARTICLE
Neurotic “disorders” or “disorder”?
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Uniwersytet Jagielloński Collegium Medicum, Katedra Psychoterapii
Submission date: 2018-09-21
Final revision date: 2018-10-07
Acceptance date: 2018-10-08
Online publication date: 2019-04-30
Publication date: 2019-04-30
Corresponding author
Psychiatr Pol 2019;53(2):293–312
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ABSTRACT
Objectives:
To check the legitimacy of the presumption that there are many “neurotic” disorders.
Methods:
Taxonomic analyzes by single linkage method, unweighted pair-group average and Ward’s method, also k-means clustering. The material in the pilot study used the information obtained from the Symptom Checklist “O”, completed before treatment by 4,649 patients, who applied for treatment due to various functional disorders. The basic study used questionnaires filled in by 288 patients with diagnosed neurotic disorders and by 95 not-neurotic persons, constituting a control group.
Conclusions:
The results suggest that the symptoms of functional disorders constitute one set (syndrome), thus the conviction of the multiplicity of neurotic disorders seems unjustified.
To check the legitimacy of the presumption that there are many “neurotic” disorders.
Methods:
Taxonomic analyzes by single linkage method, unweighted pair-group average and Ward’s method, also k-means clustering. The material in the pilot study used the information obtained from the Symptom Checklist “O”, completed before treatment by 4,649 patients, who applied for treatment due to various functional disorders. The basic study used questionnaires filled in by 288 patients with diagnosed neurotic disorders and by 95 not-neurotic persons, constituting a control group.
Conclusions:
The results suggest that the symptoms of functional disorders constitute one set (syndrome), thus the conviction of the multiplicity of neurotic disorders seems unjustified.
Project no. RCN/SN/0610/2021/1 implemented from 2022 to 2024
Total value of the project: PLN 490 000
Amount funded by the MEiN: PLN 100 000
Aims of the project: Publication in Open Access mode on the Internet of English and Polish language versions of 12 consecutive issues of the journal Psychiatria Polska (years 2022-2024). Modernization and redesign of the journal’s website. Financing of the Editorial System. Copy editing and proofreading of journal issues. Counteracting scientific misinformation. Submission of electronic versions of the journal to the National Digital Library Polona and the Digital Library of Scientific Publications Academica.
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