Bulgarian Journal of Psychiatry, 2019; 4(4):3-10

THOUGHTS ON HEDONIA AND ITS DISORDERS

Silviya Ralovska1, Petar Marinov2

1MHC “Prof. N. Shipkovenski” LTD

2Department of Neurology, Psychiatry and Disaster Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Trakia University

Abstract. Hedonia is an essential area of human and animal mental life. Studies in this area are divergent and diverse. Anhedonia remains the most studied so far. Relatively little attention is paid to other forms of hedonic capacity disorders. The purpose of our article is to shed light on the possibilities to construct a spectrum of pathological abnormalities from normal hedonia.

Key words: hedonia, anhedonia

 

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