The relationship between clinical insight and cognitive and affective empathy in schizophrenia

Background: Schizophrenia is often associated with poor clinical insight (unawareness of mental illness and its symptoms) and deficits in empathy, which are important for social functioning. Cognitive empathy has been linked to clinical insight while affective empathy and its role in insight and pat...

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Main Authors: Mia Atoui, Fatima El Jamil, Joseph El Khoury, Mark Doumit, Nathalie Syriani, Munir Khani, Ziad Nahas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2018-06-01
Series:Schizophrenia Research: Cognition
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221500131730032X