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The issue of pain measurement and assessment has attracted intense clinical and research attention, particularly over the past three decades. Hence, pain assessment has become a) a central feature in the study of pain across a myriad of health care disciplines (i.e., medicine, re...
Self-esteem is “our feeling of self-worth”. It serves as both a protective and risk factor in the development of mental health problems. Mental disorders are among the leading causes of ill-health and disability worldwide. Depression and anxiety are the two most common forms ...
Distress in Diabetes may affect the physical as well as emotional wellbeing of the patient. The current study is to examine the relationship of Distress in Diabetes and incidence of depression in middle age. A sample of 100 diagnosed Type 2 diabetes (Males= 50; Females =50) were...
Eating Disorders (ED) have attracted extensive clinical and research attention, manifested by the exponential growth of articles and book chapters on ED conditions indexed in the scholarly literature. Yet most mental health practitioners only occasionally treat ED patients and t...
Recovery-Focused Behavior Therapy (RFBT) is a very recent conceptualization which is being shared in this paper which illustrates the application in a case of severe OCD. The patient is presented with an imaginary scenario of perceived recovery and he/she is to conceptualize and ...
Insight has been widely studied in clinical setting. Nowadays, attention has shifted to cognitive insight or the ability to scrutinize and correct one’ incorrect convictions. Schizophrenia may be conceptualized as a chronic neurocognitive disorder with diverse levels of functi...
There is accumulating evidence that projective techniques can be successfully used in clinical differential diagnosis. The present study was conducted to compare SIS profile of non-chronic schizophrenia patient and chronic schizophrenia patient. Results show that non-chronic schi...
The purpose of the present investigation was to find the personality profile and coping strategies of individuals with attempted suicide. Sixty individuals participated in the study out of which thirty had attempted suicide and thirty were normal subjects. It was a purposive samp...
The present study aimed to explore the associations among emotional intelligence and Rorschach’s special indices in patients with schizophrenia. A sample of 30 male patients with different types of schizophrenia (diagnosed using ICD 10) each within age range of 18-45 years was ...
Self-esteem is an important component of psychological health. Self-esteem refers to an individual’s sense of value or worth, or the extent to which a person appreciates, or likes himself. Treatment failures, functional loss, demoralization and stigmatization may lower self-est...
Advances in art based assessments in art therapy in clinical settings led to the development of objective measurements of various elements in drawing. The present study was aimed at assessing the elements that are related to depression manifested in the drawing task of “Person ...
This case demonstrates the role of cognitive drill therapy in the treatment of panic disorder with agoraphobia. A 52-year-old female patient presented with eight years H/O panic disorder with agoraphobia. The Body Sensations Questionnaire, Agoraphobic Cognitions Questionnaire, ...
By the year 2020, depression is estimated to become the second leading cause of disability. Much has been written about the incidence of depression in western countries but, an area of significance is the developing country like India where depression is engulfing people from al...
The new era is the witness of an emerging concept - Metacognition, and this perspective is contributing towards the effective understanding and treatment of psychopathology. This Case study investigated the role of metacognition and focused on the changes resulting from the use o...
Culture is the lens or template we use in perceiving, constructing, defining and interpreting reality. People from different cultural contexts are expected to define and experience reality in different ways. The views of therapies developed in the western individualistic culture ...
Thalassemia is one of the common genetic disease. The present study intends to investigate the personality profile of patients suffering from thalassemia through Somatic Inkblot Series Test (SIS-II). Thirty patients attending Thalassemia Control Unit of Malda Medical College &...
The present study aimed at the exploration of gender-specific projective and psychometric personality indicants of suicide ideation. For this, 300 Senior Secondary School students (150 females & 150 males) randomly drawn from various schools of Gurgaon and Delhi, were adminis...
The present study was conducted to examine the SIS-II correlates of suicide ideation. To realize the main objective, 480 Secondary School students (186 females and 294 males) drawn from 11th & 12th grade students of various Senior Secondary Schools of Gurgaon and Delhi, were ...
Depression has often been linked with anomalous pattern of hemispheric asymmetry and recent studies provide support that neuro-behavioural measures of hemispheric asymmetry may potentially be used as a marker of depression. With this background the present study examines the natu...
This is a pilot study to see the effect of medical intervention on the responses of Rorschach Inkblot Test and Somatic Inkblot Series-II in a case of Schizophrenia. The study shows how clinicians can effectively supplement Rorschach data utilizing SIS - II images to monitor the p...
Patients about to undergo surgery are often anxious. The fear of impending surgery on an important organ such as eye involves considerable anxiety as complications often result in infection and blindness. Long term psychological problems may follow surgical interventions. Does ea...
Somatic Inkblot Series (SIS-II) was administered on two female faculty in a professional institution. They were professionally competent and had good relationship with their students. Both had some problems in the area of interpersonal relationship with their colleagues. However,...
The purpose of this study was to compare the performance on Human figure drawing test (HFDT) between schizophrenic and manic patients. The sample consists of 60 patients (30 each schizophrenia and mania). Two intelligence tests were administered to rule out the possibility of men...
The present study intended to investigate the SIS profile of patients suffering from depression. 100 depressive patients attending OPD and community outreach programs of Nai Subah psychotherapy counseling Centre Varanasi, and 100 normal participants were administered the SIS –I...
The Somatic Inkblot Series (SIS) is based on the principles of projection and uses inkblots to interpret the responses given by an individual. The interpretation is further used to map the personality and psychodynamics. The SIS has become an effective diagnostic projective tool ...
The effects of alcohol on human mind and body are a fascinating subject since times immemorial. 200 cases (Non Alcoholic, Mean Age 41.32 years) and 50 patients (Alcoholic, Mean Age 42.96 Years) admitted in a Medical College Hospital, Pune (situated in a semi urban area) were take...
The present study attempts to discern whether meaning in life predicts trait hope, state hope and suicidal ideation beyond the effects predicted by reasons for living, personality and stressful life events ; and whether reasons for living predicts beyond the effects predicted...
Projective techniques are commonly utilized to estimate the extent of ego strength. Somatic Inkblot Series is relatively a new addition to the family of inkblots. We have tried to explore if SIS-I can also effectively measure the ego strength in depressive patients. Somatic Inkbl...
“ Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty dumpty had a great fall: All the king’s horses and all the king’s men Couldn’t put Humpty together again” - Mother Goose Nursery tales The first decade in the new millennium has passed, so I wish to share certain SIS society perspec...
Bipolar Affective Disorder (BAD) is characterized by recurrent episodes of mania and depression interspersed with episodes of complete recovery. However, some residual cognitive deficits are reported. The present study aimed to see cognitive flexibility in patients suffering from...
The study purports to compare the degree of depression, certain personality characteristics and perceived gain in persons suffering from somatoform disorder, orthopedic pain and normal controls. The sample consisted of 30 women suffering from somatoform disorder, 30 from orthopae...
This study was carried out with the aim to study the psychopathological components in the personality of smokers and reaction to social approval motives. A group of 20 male smokers (mean age 25.23 yrs) were selected from Patna district and a demographically matched sample of 20 m...
Somatic Inkblot Series-I was administered to 50 non-paranoid Schizophrenic patients and 50 normal subjects to identify the diagnostic indicators of non paranoid schizophrenics. The results indicated that the patient group scored lower on total response, animal response, sex, huma...
Patients with a borderline personality structure often show suicidal and self-harm dynamics which represent a serious obstacle to treatment. Are presented two clinical cases of such patients with a previous suicide attempt, who, after a psycho-diagnostic phase, have undertaken a ...
The present study intends to investigate SIS II profile of patients suffering from epilepsy. Fifty (50) epileptic patients attending OPD and community outreach program of Ranchi Institute of Neuropsychiatry and Allied Science (RINPAS), Ranchi, India and 50 normal participants wer...
Throughout the history of clinical psychology, different psychological theories have provided insights into psychological distress from different perspectives. The current paper attempts to provide an integrated understanding of different theories while understanding the psychopa...
The study explored depression and alienation aspects of mental health in chronic pelvic pain and endometriosis patients and assessed their quality of life in Indian cultural conditions. Asha - Deep Depression Scale (Kumar, 2002), Alienation Scale (Patil, 1989) and P.G.I. Quality ...
Somatic Inkblot Series (SIS) has become an effective projective tool for the assessment of the patient suffering from various mental health problems and general population as well. Alcohol dependence is one of the major problems which have drawn the attention of society and menta...
The present study was conducted to examine the impact of environment on the responses of Somatic Inkblots Images of two different school systems: the Government Schools and Gurukuls system in Haryana state (India). Two hundred male students (100 from government school and 100 fro...
The present study was conducted on 71 Neurotic cases taken from a private psychiatric hospital in Lucknow. The Rorschach test was administered following Beck’s method. The findings reveal that patient tend to give R between 11 to 20 and the location (D,Dd and S) depends on th...
Anxiety is the phenomenon which improves the work performance of the individual but at the same time as it starts persisting for a long time it becomes pathological and starts producing several obstructions in the life of the individual. However it reduces the performance too. Si...
The Rorschach test by Klopfer's method was administered to 50 schizophrenia patients and an equal number of age and sex matched neurosis patients and normal control subjects. Color stress sign was present in 30 schizophrenia patients, five neurosis patients and five normal c...
The Somatic Inkblot Series-Video has proved to be an effective instrument in hearing the inner cry of a suffering individual which may not be possible otherwise. A person may narrate his symptoms and the problems at conscious level but unable to understand the reason of these une...
Clinical psychology is a helping profession, and deals with mental health problems of the population-both positive mental healths like quality of life, well-being, satisfaction, adjustment, self-realization etc. as well as negative mental health like dissatisfaction, maladjustmen...
Thirty hospitalized female obese patients, in the age group of 20-59 years were studied with the help of Cognitive Behavioral Assessment 2.0 and Somatic Inkblot Series - I. (a) Subjects with high scores of psycho-physiological activation, depression and anxiety gave greater numbe...
Fifty drug dependent and 50 alcohols dependent cases (matched on age, sex and education) were administered Somatic Inkblot Series-II (SIS-II). The SIS protocols were scored as per standard procedures (Cassell 1990) and were compared for the chosen variables selected for the stud...
Alopecia areata is a disease of unknown etiology but factors like heredity autoimmunity and psychological disturbances are implicated. The present study is an attempt to find out psychological profile of patients with alpaca seriate. The somatic Inkblot Series-II was administered...
The present study aims to find out the personality of patients suffering from speech defects with the help of SIS-II and to find the contents heeling in understanding the psychopathology and inner cry of such patients. To achieve the above objectives, eighteen cases having speech...
The present study compares the diagnostic indices of the SIS-II with the Rorschach test in Normal. Neurotic and schizophrenics. The sample is comprised of normal, 50 neurotics and 50 schizophrenics. The results suggest that the diagnostic confidence certainly, which is achieved b...
PEN and SIS-II were administered on 32 psychiatric patients, in order to find dependence of SIS variables on certain personality dimensions. The result shoes that (a) the number of “Most Popular” responses depend upon the education of the subject (b) Psychotics scores tended ...
The study aimed to measure the depression level of the addicts and explore the role of diagnostic indices for them. A card form of SIS-I and Back Depression Inventory were administered on a sample of 50 drug addicts, divided into three subcategories, namely, Heroin (N=22), Brown ...
A descriptive study was undertaken to examine correlation between suicidal ideation and certain results of the Somatic Inkblot Series Test (SIS). Comparisons of test results of five case studies of threatened suicide and/or attempted suicide were done showing increased deviant re...
Protocols of 500 subjects including 300 normal and 200 psychiatric patients (Neurosis and schizophrenia) were analyzed to find out whether the pattern of responses in two forms (SIS-II and SIS-Video) are different, (2) to demonstrate whether series A and series B of SIS-Video can...
As part of an ongoing study, the authors attempted to see if neurotics and psychotics can be dedifferentiated on selected SIS-II variables. Total Number of Responses, Movement responses, Typical and Pathological responses were low but Rejections and Atypical responses were more i...
The Somatic Inkblot Series-II (SIS-II) is a structure projective diagnostic instrument and an adjunct to psychotherapy. It was administered to 150 Army subject (50 each - Psychosis, Neurosis and Normal) individually, following standard procedures (Cassell, 1990). The protocols we...
The SIS-II and the Rorschach Inkblot Tests were administered to 50 normal 50 neuter and 50 schizophrenic subjects using the standard procedure to prepare profiles of the three groups of subjects and to find out the relationship between the common indices of the two tests. Out of ...
Twenty four case of Schizophrenia and depression were administered SIS-II to find out differences in their perception (a) of the images specific to elicit vita inner organs (b) in the anatomical content categories and (c) in the form level of responses. It was observed that the p...
A new Combination of Therapies, based on Western and Eastern Psychotherapies had been tries on 10 Schizophrenics of less than 5-year duration leading to satisfactory results. The various steps of the technique (e.g. Drug therapy, Psychotherapy, Yoga therapy) and evaluation of imp...