Thematic Correlations of the Patients with Severe Depressive Episode. A Case Study

The paper presents a case study having as a purpose the identifying of the thematic correlations of a patient diagnosed with severe depressive episode that determine an increased consumption of psychological resources. The correlations are computed as dot products of the vectors containing the patient's psychological states. Seven such psychological states were identified. The significant correlations offer important information in the psychotherapeutic approach of the patient. To describe these aspects the study uses the method of latent semantic analysis.