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#123456 02/20/04 01:54 PM
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From SIU Mental Status Examination:"
Qualitative descriptions: Type and intensity of emotions, whether of a sweeping character or primarily connected with definite topics and strivings. Attention is focused on the emotions of depression, elation, euphoria, anger, anxiety, fear, suspicious­ness, resentment, on the absence of clearly experienced emotions, on apathy, and on lability of emotion. Under objective data one might seek answers to the following questions - questions which are usually unspoken. Is the patient composed, complacent? Is he irritable, angry, happy, elated or exalted? Is he boastful, self-satisfied or expansive? Is he suspicious, distant or aloof? On the other hand, is he indifferent, apathetic, dissociated, perplexed, fearful, anxious or tense?





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"Other words from the same root are avalanche,
lapse, and lava."
Wow--I never knew that; avalanches and lava certainly are susceptible to change or instability, aren't they?


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Well, better labile than affectless. Or should that be lack of affect for better scansion and assonance?


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Dear jheem: Flatness of affect is often seen in one type of
schizophrenia, and so is bad news. And lability of affect is
easier to treat. I don't know current terminology.


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I also like the word affect, because it puts the lie to the prescription that effect is a always a noun and affect likewise a verb. Affect as a noun goes back aways before modern psychology. Flatness of affect has often been called 'cool' in the vernacular, starting with James Dean's performance in Rebel Without a Cause. It is currently super popular with teenaged males.


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Dear jheem: One of the earliest sites of "cool" was in an
Italian dukedom on the east coast of Italy. I can't remember the name, and it's not on the only map of Italy I can find. It was finally destroyed by treachery of César Borgia. PBS had a couple programs about it, calling it the
most civilized state that ever existed. They had tournaments
of sword fighting in which the highest awards went to the
contestants who won with least display of exertion.


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Tuscany? Florence? Cesare and Lucrezia were the children of Rodrigo de Borja (of Spain originally) aka Pope Alexander VI. Cesare had a French title. Fun family.


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Dear jheem: I said on the east coast of Italy,on the Adriatic, perhaps halfway between the latitude of Rome and
that of Venice. Maps are one thing I find disappointing on the Internet.


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not quite what you're looking for, I expect, but maybe you can find something here:
http://document.itwg.com/idxmap.asp

I just googled map: Italy...



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How you pronounce that J?


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