Journal
JOURNAL OF ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 117, Issue 1, Pages 247-251Publisher
AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.1037/0021-843X.117.1.247
Keywords
schizophrenia; self; memory; future thinking
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It has been suggested that patients with schizophrenia experience a distorted sense of continuity of self across time. However, temporal aspects of self-processing have received little empirical attention in schizophrenia. In this study, the authors investigated schizophrenic patients' ability to generate specific mental images of their personal past and future. Results showed that patients recalled fewer specific past events than did healthy controls and were even more impaired in generating specific future events. These deficits were associated with positive symptoms but were not associated with negative symptoms or with performances on verbal fluency tasks. It is suggested that schizophrenic patients' failures to project themselves into specific past and future episodes might be related to difficulties in retrieving contextual details from memory, as well as disturbance of the sense of subjective time.
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