Meanings
- not comparableResembling a negative state or condition.
Primary and pseudonegative symptoms. It seems likely that the core deficits in the negative syndrome are poverty of affect and poverty of ideation.
2001, Ann Mortimer, Sean A. Spence, Managing Negative Symptoms of Schizophrenia, page 412 more examples
The pseudonegative reaction must be carefully differentiated from the positive reaction. It is anaphylactic in nature and due to autolyzed diphtheria bacillus protein.
1924, George Rudolph Herrmann, Methods in MedicineThe first paper, "The hypnotic induction of hallucinatory color vision followed by pseudonegative afterimages," introduces an ingenious experimental paradigm whereby Erickson is able to explore the genuineness of hallucinatory color vision.
1980, Milton H. Erickson, Ernest Lawrence Rossi, The Collected Papers of Milton H. Erickson on Hypnosis, page 1
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