The thematic management like a scoreboard of primary deficits of language in the people diagnosed with the first schizophrenia of episode: A study in a Chilean sample La gestión temática como marcador de déficit lingüístico primario en personas con diagnó

Abstract

In this research the issue management is analyzed in a sample of 50 clinical interviews with people diagnosed with chronic schizophrenia and first episode, from the perspective of linguistics applied to clinical psychiatry. Specifically it proposes to determine if differences exist in the thematic management between both groups of patients. Likewise, in order to try if it constitutes a scoreboard of primary deficit one tries to check the relation between the thematic management, the stadium of the disease and the sex. Also, in order to test whether it is a marker of primary deficit is to verify the relationship between the subject management, disease stage and sex. The analysis of the information, first it demonstrates that it is possible to observe the loss of the thematic unit, the frequent presentation of topics without referential development and of leaps of discursive topics in persons with schizophrenia of the first episode. Secondly, the variables disease stage and sex have stat