GELOTOPHOBIA
Journal Title: Psychiatry, Neurology and Medical Psychology - Year 2014, Vol 1, Issue 1
Abstract
A review of foreign sources on clinical studies of sense of humor and comic elements has been carried out. It was found that the results of the empirical research of the comical are confl icting data on how positive the eff ect of humor on mental health and psychological well-being is. The article gives the results of the analysis of publications on gelotophobia – a pathological fear of becoming the object of derision. It is noted that the study of gelotophobia is becoming more widespread and is of great scientifi c and practical interest in the context of study of individual diff erences and psychopathology, which is associated with high prevalence and universality of gelotophobia as a psychosocial phenomenon, as well as with the fact that excessive social anxiety is considered as a component of anti-vital behavior.
Authors and Affiliations
Valeriya Ponomaryova
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP271728
- DOI -
- Views 135
- Downloads 0
ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHIC CORRELATES OF NEUROTIC DISORDERS AMONG PERSONS DISPLACED FROM THE AREA OF COUNTER-TERRORISM OPERATION
We have observed 110 persons displaced from the area of counter-terrorism operation suffering from neurotic disorders (basic group) and 40 people without neurotic disorders (control group) using the EEG. Detecting altere...
OPTIMI (Online Predicative Tools for Intervention in Mental Illness) OPTIMI ECG sensor as a measurement tool for signs of stress and poor coping in high risk individuals
Many researchers believe that depression is the outcome of a pathogenic combination between external stress and poor coping. Based on this hypothesis, the OPTIMI project is aimed to develop automated tools for the detect...
CLINICAL AND NEUROIMAGING CHANGES IN EPHEDRINE ABUSERS
The given article conserns the problem of homemade ephedrine drugs. It is shown that the use of these substances leads to serious changes in the brain by MRI data. The presence of Parkinson’s syndrome, pyramidal, cerebel...
SCHIZOID PERSONALITY DISORDER AND KRETSCHMER’S SCHIZOID PSYCHOPATHY: A COMPARATIVE CLINICAL ANALYSIS AND FEATURES OF BIOLOGICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL THERAPY
The article based on the author’s long-term clinical, therapeutic and psychological observations substantiates the need to return to E. Kretschmer’s classical notions about the statics and dynamics of schizoid personalit...
DIFFERENTIAL-PREDICTIVE MODEL OF ANALYSIS OF SCHIZOPHRENIA SIMPLE CLINICAL VARIANTS
In order to develop a differential-prognostic model of schizophrenia in its simmlex atypical variants analysis which was based on the clinically-psychopathological research 100 patients who were suffering from the schizoph...