Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester, School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY, USA.
J Psychiatr Res. 1966 Nov;4(2):127-39. doi: 10.1016/0022-3956(66)90025-2.
Fifty psychiatric patients were evaluated for subjective and objective changes in time sense in the Emergency Department and, on the average, nine days after admission to the hospital. Unpleasant affect (anxiety, aggression, and depression) was positively correlated with changes in time sense, and changes in pleasantness were negatively correlated with changes in time sense. There was greater distortion of time sense in the E.D., when unpleasant affect was greater. Besides the pre-post correlations of time sense with emotional changes, the comparison of sub-groups showed that patients with poor reality testing (psychotic, schizophrenic, and delusional patients) had the most marked distortions of time sense. These findings suggest that, in acute mental illness, changes in time sense may be a useful index to alterations in reality testing and emotion.
五十名精神科患者在急诊室接受了主观和客观时间感变化的评估,平均在入院后九天。不愉快的情绪(焦虑、攻击和抑郁)与时间感的变化呈正相关,而愉快感的变化与时间感的变化呈负相关。当不愉快的情绪更大时,急诊室的时间感扭曲更大。除了时间感与情绪变化的前后相关性外,亚组比较还表明,现实检验能力较差的患者(精神病、精神分裂症和妄想症患者)的时间感扭曲最明显。这些发现表明,在急性精神疾病中,时间感的变化可能是现实检验和情绪变化的有用指标。