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标题：Attitudes Towards the Concept of Death among Individuals with Mental Disorders Who Have Committed Violent Crimes
作者：Kostyanaya M.I. ; Safuanov F.S.
期刊名称：Psychological Science and Education psyedu.ru
电子版ISSN：2074-5885
出版年度：2011
期号：1
出版社：Moscow State University of Psychology and Education
摘要：The article analyzes structural and dynamic features of the attitude toward death in individuals with borderline mental disorders who have committed aggressive wrongful acts. A total of 45 defendants, who were undergoing stationary psychological and psychiatric examination at the V.P. Serbsky State Research Center for Social and Forensic Psychiatry, and 109 law-abiding citizens were examined. The study showed that the emotional-semantic structure of attitude towards the concept of death in people with mental abnormalities differs significantly from the structure of this attitude among mentally healthy subjects. We further hypothesize that the inversion of the emotional-semantic structure of the concept of death with undifferentiated emotional-evaluative characteristics is the result of the weak elaboration of the subject in the minds of the people surveyed.
关键词：complex forensic psychological and psychiatric examination; forensic psychological examination; borderline mental disorder; attitude toward death; free associations; semantic space.