Biomedical subjects

D Czogalik

Publications and source records attributed to D Czogalik.

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PubMed1995

Interactional structures of therapist and client participation in adult psychotherapy: P technique and chronography.

In previous studies, the utterances of 6 clients and their therapists in early, middle, and late sessions were rated on 34 and 39 speech categories, respectively. P-technique analyses revealed 4 client and 4 therapist factors. For the present study, therapist and client utterances were assigned factor scores. A 17 x 17 correlation matrix was constructed, consisting of correlations across 4 lagged utterances (therapist-client-therapist-client), with each utterance represented by 4 factor scores and a score for the third from which the utterance was sampled. Principal-components analysis of this matrix revealed 4 therapist-client interaction factors: Mutual Therapeutic Engagement, Therapeutic Negotiation, Undirected Client Reminiscence, and Sustained Therapist Work. Unsuccessful cases deviated most from successful cases on at least 1 factor. Comparisons of interaction chronographs of episodes drawn from a successful and unsuccessful case revealed meaningful differences. Discussion highlights the power of P technique to reveal structures of psychotherapeutic discourse.

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PubMed1984

Taxonomic aspects of clinical character typology.

Whereas clinical character typology is based upon one typological idealized personality description of the same illness model, empirical character typology is concerned with the identification of the different personality structures for the same illness model. We have been able to prove that in a taxonomical analysis (Q-factor analysis) of patients and healthy persons subgroups can be identified whose mean-value profiles justify designation as depressive, compulsive, and hysterical personality. This classification was replicated from a second sample. Through this personality classification it becomes possible to determine the distribution of the three personality structures from a clinical group. The distribution of the personality structure in neurotic depression was 59% for the depressive, 19% for the compulsive, and 22% for the hysterical personality. We were able to prove that they can be characterized by various coping strategies which presumably require different psychotherapeutic interventions.

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PubMed1984

[Changes in reaction potentials in neurotic depression].

An investigation, comparing the event related potential (ERP) of depressive patients and a control group is presented. The components N100, P200, N200 and P300 have been recorded during the Stroop colour-word-interference test. The task is to name the colour of a colour word presented in a different colour, to read the word of an achromatic colour word and to name the colour of colour strips. The reaction time to name the colour or the word resulted in a general retardation for the patients with neurotic depression in comparison to the control group. The components of the acoustic evoked potentials, recorded after a warning stimulus S1, 4 s before the single Stroop stimuli showed no differences in amplitude or latency. The visual evoked potentials, associated to the Stroop stimuli showed, in case of the neurotic depressive patients an increase of the P300-amplitude. This result is interpreted as an increased cognitive effort of the patients in case of the employed experimental approach.

Cerebral Cortex↗