RT Journal
A1 Platman SR, Plutchik RR, Fieve RR, Lawlor WG
T1 EMotion profiles associated with mania and depression
JF Archives of General Psychiatry
JO Archives of General Psychiatry
YR 1969
FD February 1
VO 20
IS 2
SP 210
OP 214
DO 10.1001/archpsyc.1969.01740140082010
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpsyc.1969.01740140082010
AB THERE EXISTS a considerable literature suggesting the unreliability of traditional psychiatric diagnoses.1-3 At the same time it has been shown that some individual descriptive categories, such as depression, or profile descriptions based on symptoms are often quite reliable.4,5 In addition, attempts to determine the personality and emotion concepts that clinicians believe to be associated with diagnostic terms have shown high agreement for most terms.6,7The present study was concerned with a direct comparison of emotion profiles obtained from a group of manic-depressive patients, with profiles based upon staff ratings. Self-ratings of affect states by patients in the manic or depressive parts of their cycle were compared with staff evaluations of the same two states. The major questions of concern were: (1) what emotions are associated with mania and depression by patients and by staff members; and (2) how similar are the