title: Psychopathological considerations on the semantic confusion between mood and affect.
abstract: The discussion is anchored in the transcultural, organismic pervasive character of psychopathologically relevant depressive and manic reality construction; it attacks, however, the exclusion of these mood states from the normal behavior repertory. The hypothesis is advanced that both phenomena represent inborn dialectical logical instruments of evolution-like human identity creation and maintenance. Therefore, from a psychotechnical viewpoint, mood is a meta-concept in regard to all experiential, communicative, self-defining facets of human polythematic existence to which emotion-related linguistic labels can be affixed.
authors.affiliation: Amt der Salzburger Landesregierung, Sozialmedizinischer Dienst, Salzburg, Osterreich.
authors.forename: W F
authors.initials: WF
authors.lastname: Pritz
mesh_terms: D000342:Affective Symptoms / Q000523:psychology; D001714:Bipolar Disorder / Q000523:psychology; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D019964:Mood Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D011599:Psychopathology; D009626:Terminology as Topic