title: First memories of "normal" and of schizophrenic, paranoid-type individuals.
abstract: Compared the early recollections of 40 schizophrenic, paranoid-type patients and 37 "normal" individuals. The themes of the early recollections of the two groups were significantly different. The normal group reported events such as illness, injury, and attention-getting more frequently than the schizophrenic group, whereas the early recollections of the schizophrenic group contained more variety of the themes than those of the normal group.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008568:Memory; D011939:Mental Recall; D008875:Middle Aged; D012563:Schizophrenia, Paranoid / Q000523:psychology*