Am J Psychiatry 1977; 134:874-877
Copyright © 1977 by American Psychiatric Association
Temporal disorganization and inner-outer confusion in acute mental illness
FT Melges and AM Freeman 3d
The authors found that changes in temporal disorganization covaried
substantially and significantly with changes in Schneider's first-rank
symptoms in 58 acutely ill psychiatric patients. Schneiderian symptoms
reflect a confusion of inner and outer events; therefore, the findings
suggest that difficulties in indexing events in time are closely related to
problems in distinguishing experiences that arise within the self from
outer experiences.
