Eichelman B, Hartwig A
Department of Psychiatry, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19140.
Psychopharmacol Bull. 1993;29(1):57-63.
General attempts have been made to catalog or categorize research literature on aggressive behavior. In the animal literature this category has been delineated by clearly observed and described patterns of behavior. These include offensive and defensive expressions in animals and the characterization of attack behaviors by typography into defensive and offensive. The human literature is considerably deficient in the description and categorization of human aggressive behavior. Current nosologies offer no utilitarian schema for characterizing violent behavior in clinical populations regarding the typography of the violence, its prediction, or guidance as to its treatment. The generation of databased nosologies may provide a mechanism for the development of research and clinically relevant nosologies based upon cluster analyses of treatment outcomes and behavioral characteristics. This strategy may provide a more effective approach for further research concerning clinical aggressive or destructive behaviors.
人们已经普遍尝试对关于攻击性行为的研究文献进行编目或分类。在动物文献中，这一类别是通过清晰观察和描述的行为模式来界定的。这些行为包括动物的进攻性和防御性表现，以及通过行为分类将攻击行为分为防御性和进攻性。人类文献在人类攻击性行为的描述和分类方面存在相当大的不足。目前的疾病分类法没有提供实用的模式来描述临床人群中暴力行为的类型、预测或治疗指导。基于数据库的疾病分类法的产生可能为基于治疗结果和行为特征的聚类分析来开发研究性和临床相关性疾病分类法提供一种机制。这种策略可能为进一步研究临床攻击或破坏行为提供一种更有效的方法。
