TY  - JOUR
T1  - EMotion profiles associated with mania and depression
AU  - Platman SR, Plutchik RR, Fieve RR, Lawlor WG
Y1  - 1969/02/01
N1  - 10.1001/archpsyc.1969.01740140082010
JO  - Archives of General Psychiatry
SP  - 210
EP  - 214
VL  - 20
IS  - 2
N2  - 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
SN  - 0003-990X
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archpsyc.1969.01740140082010
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpsyc.1969.01740140082010
ER  -