Language Behavior in Manic Patients

Lorenz, Maria; Cobb, Stanley

doi:10.1001/archneurpsyc.1952.02320180040006

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“…Evidence supporting these associations between referential language and health outcomes comes from two sources. First, linguistic analyses have been shown to reliably categorize individuals into diagnostic groups such as depression, schizophrenia, somatization disorder, paranoia, and mania (Lorenz & Cobb, 1952; Oxman, Rosenberg, Schnurr, & Tucker, 1988; Tucker & Rosenberg, 1975). Among the linguistic markers found to identify psychopathology are pronouns.…”

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Use of referential language in short-term group psychotherapy for complicated grief.

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Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, and Practice

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Use of referential language in short-term group psychotherapy for complicated grief.

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Ogrodniczuk³

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“…It must be emphasized that their findings (Newman & Mather, 1938) are largely descriptive and provide no quantitative data. Lorenz and Cobb (1952) compared the speech of manics to control by using more rigorous quantitative methods, such as determining the distribution of parts of speech or the number of words spoken per minute. They reported a relative increase in the use of pronouns and verbs, a relative decrease in the use of adjectives and prepositions, and a high verb-adjective quotient (i.e., the proportion of adjectives is decreased) in the speech of manic patients.…”

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“…They reported a relative increase in the use of pronouns and verbs, a relative decrease in the use of adjectives and prepositions, and a high verb-adjective quotient (i.e., the proportion of adjectives is decreased) in the speech of manic patients. The authors conclude: "If the assumption of a correlation between emotional states and verb-adjective quotient is correct, the manic patient's speech gives objective evidence of a heightened degree of anxiety" (Lorenz & Cobb, 1952;p.428).…”

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The Psychopathology of Language and Cognition

Rieber

Vetter

1995

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Originally published by Plenum press, New York in 1995Softcovcr reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1995 10 987654321 All rights reservedNo part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording, or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher Preface A quarter century ago, one of the authors undertook the task of surveying research and theory in an area that, for lack of a more precise designation, was called "language behavior and psychopathology." The book published under the same title addressed those precincts of language behavior wherein the interests of the psychologist, psychiatrist, linguist, and speech pathologist showed some tendencies toward convergence. The principal focus was on aspects of language and paralanguage-variously, and on the whole, indifferently referred to as "deviation," "anomalies," "aberrations," or "disturbances" -that occur with sufficient frequency in relation to certain categories of personality disorders that they have long occupied a prominent (and coritroversial) place in the psychodiagnostic process.Language Behavior and Psychopathology (1969) made clear to the reader that it did not deal with such primary patterns of language disturbance as aphasia and stuttering. This was not to deny the relevance of psychopathological considerations in such language disorders. The importance of emotional conflict in the pathogenesis of stuttering had been amply documented, and there was abundant clinical evidence that aphasic patients might react adversely to their lowered or altered capacities'in symbolizing and communicating, even to the extent of exhibiting what Kurt Goldstein called a "catastrophic reaction." Regardless, however, of any psychopathological factors that may be present in aphasia or stuttering, both are essentially linguistic disorders. Their principal symptoms are manifested in vocal speech, and their treatment requires some or a great deal of speech therapy and retraining.On the other hand, as the book sought to emphasize, the linguistic and v vi Preface paralinguistic phenomena that occur as concomitants to conventional psychiatric syndromes might be characterized more accurately as language symptoms than as language disturbances. Clinical descriptions of personality disorders prominently feature descriptions of language and paralinguistic behavior. Anyone questioning this statement need only try to imagine the difficulties presented by the psychodiagnostic assessment of a patient bereft of speech. Much, if not most, diagnostic test behavior is language behavior, and among the chief criteria for gauging therapeutic progress is change in language behavior.If there was a common orientation toward language and communication behavior in the psychopathological context, it expressed itself in two objectives. The first was an attempt to arrive at a precise description of the way or ways that individuals diagnosed as belonging to a particular nos...

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Language Behavior in Manic Patients

Lorenz¹

1953

AMA Arch NeurPsych

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A PREVIOUS publication1 reported some quantitative characteristics of the structure of manic speech. Function, as revealed by the pattern of language, is the focus of the present study. Judgments of design, motivation, relationships, intensity, and value become inseparable from even the simplest observations made upon language as a unit of behavior, as distinct from those made upon language as a codified system of signs. Hence these observations are presented as an attempt to differentiate various aspects of language behavior, and are a preliminary approximation rather than an exposition of fact.Language is both a highly flexible and, at the same time, very rigidly determined form of behavior. While it varies sensitively with the individuality of the speaker, it bears also the impress of a pattern that transcends the individual and reflects the common denominators of mental and emotional states. This paper is one of the series on language. Dr. Stanley Cobb has given helpful criticism.

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Language Behavior in Manic Patients

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Use of referential language in short-term group psychotherapy for complicated grief.

Use of referential language in short-term group psychotherapy for complicated grief.

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