title: Empathy as a method of identification of the debut of the prodrome of schizophrenia.
abstract: Early identification of the prodrome of schizophrenia is difficult due to the nonspecificity of the symptoms and the limitations of the available tools. In this article, the authors discuss the usefulness of phenomenological and morphoanalytic methods for identification of the prodrome of schizophrenia, and they propose the use of empathy as an additional tool to by-pass same of the difficulties encountered by the previous approaches.
authors.affiliation: Psychiatry Department, Universityof Missouri Kansas City, Kansas, USA. rgbota@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Robert G
authors.initials: RG
authors.lastname: Bota
authors.forename: Walter F
authors.initials: WF
authors.lastname: Ricci
mesh_terms: D042241:Early Diagnosis; D004645:Empathy; D006801:Humans; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D011582:Psychological Theory; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology