Conscious compensations for thought insertion.
Thought insertion and other experiences of alien control have been explained as a source monitoring deficit, that results from a disconnection between a cognitive system for willed actions and a different system that monitors them. The case we present is a schizophrenic patient that in order to consciously avoid feeling his thoughts as not belonging to himself performs them as a motor act of speech. We suggest an interpretation for this conscious compensation following C. Frith's neuropsychological model of schizophrenia.
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Psychiatry Service, Complexo Hospitalario Xeral-Calde, Lugo, Spain. agudoslugo@yahoo.es
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Gómez
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Garcia-Lado
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D000328:Adult; D001332:Automatism / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D001364:Awareness; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D003702:Delusions / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D018450:Disease Progression; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006212:Hallucinations / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D008297:Male; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012564:Schizophrenic Language; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology; D013850:Thinking