Affect Regulation in Schizophrenia

摘要: textabstractSchizophrenia is a serious mental disease, characterised by psychosis (delusions and hallucinations), apathy (a lack of motivation), social withdrawal, and cognitive impairment, which result in impaired functioning different areas, such as work, school, independent living, interpersonal relationships (Mueser McGurk, 2004). Apart from the above-mentioned deficits, these patients also experience emotional disturbances, have received increasing attention over two past decades (Edwards et al., 2001; Pinkham 2007). For example, schizophrenic patients are their ability to recognize emotional facial expressions (Loughland 2002). The abnormalities emotion identification emotional behaviour been found be associated with poor functioning observed schizophrenia (Borod Madigan, 2000). It still unclear whether impairment affect perception specific deficit or whether it related more generalized attention (Bozikas 2004).