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Study of the Association of Insecure Attachment With the Dehumanization and Self-Dehumanization of Patients Hospitalized With Psychotic Disorder and Organic Disease

Introduction Dehumanization is the phenomenon that concerns the non-attribution of humanness to other human beings and has two dimensions, animalistic and mechanistic. The aim of the present study is to study dehumanization and self-dehumanization in patients with psychosis and organic disease. Meth...

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Autores principales: Lekka, Dimitra, Richardson, Clive, Madoglou, Anna, Orlandou, Konstantina, Arachoviti, Vasileia, Karamanoli, Vassia I, Roubi, Aikaterini, Togas, Constantinos, Tsaraklis, Athanasios, Stalikas, Anastasios
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Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8857867/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35223230
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.21445
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author Lekka, Dimitra
Richardson, Clive
Madoglou, Anna
Orlandou, Konstantina
Arachoviti, Vasileia
Karamanoli, Vassia I
Roubi, Aikaterini
Togas, Constantinos
Tsaraklis, Athanasios
Stalikas, Anastasios
author_facet Lekka, Dimitra
Richardson, Clive
Madoglou, Anna
Orlandou, Konstantina
Arachoviti, Vasileia
Karamanoli, Vassia I
Roubi, Aikaterini
Togas, Constantinos
Tsaraklis, Athanasios
Stalikas, Anastasios
author_sort Lekka, Dimitra
collection PubMed
description Introduction Dehumanization is the phenomenon that concerns the non-attribution of humanness to other human beings and has two dimensions, animalistic and mechanistic. The aim of the present study is to study dehumanization and self-dehumanization in patients with psychosis and organic disease. Methods The sample consisted of 200 people who were hospitalized in Athens, Greece, in 2017. Participants were asked to answer the dehumanization questionnaire, the mechanistic self-dehumanization scale, the human nature and human uniqueness characteristics questionnaire, and the adult attachment questionnaire.  Results It was found that patients with organic disease and patients with psychosis do not perform mechanistic and animalistic dehumanization of themselves. Still, it seems that insecure attachment (anxiety and obsession) contributes positively to their mechanistic dehumanization and negatively to their mechanistic self-dehumanization. From the insecure attachment, only the dimensions of stress and obsession affect the mechanistic dehumanization.  Conclusions It is important to take measures to train specialists in the hospital so that they can establish a safe therapeutic relationship with the patient so that patients will not resort to dehumanization and self-dehumanization as a defense against the stress of hospitalization.
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spelling pubmed-88578672022-02-24 Study of the Association of Insecure Attachment With the Dehumanization and Self-Dehumanization of Patients Hospitalized With Psychotic Disorder and Organic Disease Lekka, Dimitra Richardson, Clive Madoglou, Anna Orlandou, Konstantina Arachoviti, Vasileia Karamanoli, Vassia I Roubi, Aikaterini Togas, Constantinos Tsaraklis, Athanasios Stalikas, Anastasios Cureus Psychiatry Introduction Dehumanization is the phenomenon that concerns the non-attribution of humanness to other human beings and has two dimensions, animalistic and mechanistic. The aim of the present study is to study dehumanization and self-dehumanization in patients with psychosis and organic disease. Methods The sample consisted of 200 people who were hospitalized in Athens, Greece, in 2017. Participants were asked to answer the dehumanization questionnaire, the mechanistic self-dehumanization scale, the human nature and human uniqueness characteristics questionnaire, and the adult attachment questionnaire.  Results It was found that patients with organic disease and patients with psychosis do not perform mechanistic and animalistic dehumanization of themselves. Still, it seems that insecure attachment (anxiety and obsession) contributes positively to their mechanistic dehumanization and negatively to their mechanistic self-dehumanization. From the insecure attachment, only the dimensions of stress and obsession affect the mechanistic dehumanization.  Conclusions It is important to take measures to train specialists in the hospital so that they can establish a safe therapeutic relationship with the patient so that patients will not resort to dehumanization and self-dehumanization as a defense against the stress of hospitalization. Cureus 2022-01-20 /pmc/articles/PMC8857867/ /pubmed/35223230 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.21445 Text en Copyright © 2022, Lekka et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Psychiatry
Lekka, Dimitra
Richardson, Clive
Madoglou, Anna
Orlandou, Konstantina
Arachoviti, Vasileia
Karamanoli, Vassia I
Roubi, Aikaterini
Togas, Constantinos
Tsaraklis, Athanasios
Stalikas, Anastasios
Study of the Association of Insecure Attachment With the Dehumanization and Self-Dehumanization of Patients Hospitalized With Psychotic Disorder and Organic Disease
title Study of the Association of Insecure Attachment With the Dehumanization and Self-Dehumanization of Patients Hospitalized With Psychotic Disorder and Organic Disease
title_full Study of the Association of Insecure Attachment With the Dehumanization and Self-Dehumanization of Patients Hospitalized With Psychotic Disorder and Organic Disease
title_fullStr Study of the Association of Insecure Attachment With the Dehumanization and Self-Dehumanization of Patients Hospitalized With Psychotic Disorder and Organic Disease
title_full_unstemmed Study of the Association of Insecure Attachment With the Dehumanization and Self-Dehumanization of Patients Hospitalized With Psychotic Disorder and Organic Disease
title_short Study of the Association of Insecure Attachment With the Dehumanization and Self-Dehumanization of Patients Hospitalized With Psychotic Disorder and Organic Disease
title_sort study of the association of insecure attachment with the dehumanization and self-dehumanization of patients hospitalized with psychotic disorder and organic disease
topic Psychiatry
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8857867/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35223230
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.21445
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