“Although negative symptoms are a barrier to recovery,” says a study in The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, “little is understood about the psychological processes that reinforce and sustain them.” The study finds that among 99 adults with schizophrenia spectrum diagnoses, the significant impact of social withdrawal and emotion recognition deficits on negative symptoms in people became nonsignificant when compared with personal narrative integrity as a mediating factor.
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Schizophrenia Research: Training of affect recognition (TAR) in schizophrenia—Impact on functional outcome ”…findings support the efficacy of an affect recognition training for patients with schizophrenia and the generalization to social relationship.”
Journal of Affective Disorders: Increased suppression of negative and positive emotions in major depression ”…we suggest that emotion suppression might be associated with fear of emotions.”
Psychiatry Research: “Don’t give me that look” — Overconfidence in false mental state perception in schizophrenia “The results highlight the need for metacognitive therapeutic approaches … ”
