- Title
- A comparative Rorschach study of some responses of Schizophrenic and non-Schizophrenic Nguni female subjects
- Creator
- Melane, Nompumelelo Popana
- Subject
- Rorschach Test
- Subject
- Schizophrenia -- Social aspects
- Subject
- Schizophrenia -- Treatment
- Subject
- Psychoanalysis -- Social aspects
- Subject
- Nguni (African people) -- Psychology
- Subject
- Women -- Mental health
- Date Issued
- 1976
- Date
- 1976
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MA
- Identifier
- vital:3216
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012873
- Description
- Observation of the frequency with which major decisions on issues affecting psychiatric patients were decided on material elicited from techniques like the Rorschach stimulated the investigation of the applicability of this technique to African patients. The nosological group chosen for this study was the schizophrenic group. Scrutiny into the literature revealed great diversity in conceptions of the etiology of the schizophrenic condition. To handle this material it was necessary to adopt a modification of the framework used in Friedman and Kaplan (1974). Having gone into the models on etiology it was evident that consistency was only possible in the realm of symptoms and diagnosis and the definition of schizophrenia as a group of psychotic disorders characterised by gross distortions of reality : the disorganisation and fragmentation of perception, thought and emotion and withdrawal from social interaction, was adopted. With this preconceived idea of schizophrenia three hypotheses were formulated to test the diagnostic utility of the Rorschach with Nguni schizophrenic female subjects. Summary, p. 104.
- Format
- 127 pages
- Format
- Publisher
- Rhodes University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Humanities, Psychology
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Melane, Nompumelelo Popana
- Hits: 1532
- Visitors: 1579
- Downloads: 74
Collections
RU Department of Psychology
| Thumbnail | File | Description | Size | Format | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| View Details Download | SOURCEPDF | 9 MB | Adobe Acrobat PDF | View Details Download |