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A lack of mental flexibility will hamper the capacity to consider alternatives and make complex inferences about oneself, which will inevitably result in poor insight.
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Poor insight has a negative impact on the outcome in schizophrenia; consequently, poor insight is a logical target for treatment.
Thus, poor insight in schizophrenia may result in part from deficits in metacognitive capacities, namely self-reflectivity and mastery.
Similar to the interviewed PT who advocated non-disclosure for patients with delusions, we can find a few examples in the literature where patients with poor insight, especially in cases of psychotic disease, are treated in this way [ 36].
In addition, those with poor insight had higher levels of perseverative errors (PEs) on the Wisconsin Card Sort Test (WCST).
This study examined clinical and demographic predictors of poor insight in individuals with obsessions and/or compulsions.
These findings suggest that poor insight in schizophrenia may be a function of specific prefrontally mediated neurocognitive deficits rather than a global impairment in neuropsychological functioning or different profiles of psychopathology.
Anosognosia was introduced as a synonym for "poor insight" in the most recent edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, but the concept remains slippery, since the phenomenon it describes is essentially social: the extent to which a patient agrees with her doctor's interpretation.
VC websites generally give poor insight in what they really are about.
Related research comes from studies on poor insight in OCD.
The neuropsychological model argues that specific cognitive impairments are responsible for poor insight in schizophrenia [ 24, 25].
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