My youngest son has TS and I have read everything I could get
my hands on about it.
He does not have coproralia--lots of echolalia that sometimes
may include a cuss word or two--just "likes" the sounds of
some word sequences so he keeps repeating them over, and over,
and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over,
and over, .... you get the picture (how'd you like to be in
the car on a nice 8-hour drive and have him get stuck on a
phrase a few minutes after we get on the road......)
anyway,
I have found that the 10-15% figure is universal in the literature
I have read, but I am at school and have all of my references at
home.
But I am sure that there is some good information, with references
on the tourette society of america (TSA) webpage that you can
follow-up with if you don't get any other references.
And, it is NOT uncommon for texts to continue false information
repeatedly, just pick up 90% ofthe intro psych texts and open
up to the sensation/perception chapters and tell me you don't see
that awful tongue picture with the clearly labeled and precisely
defined areas for specific tastes. HAH! how long has that myth
been debunked and there it still remains :-(
annette
On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Jeff Ricker wrote:
> I have been discussing Tourette's Disorder (a disorder in which there
> are motor and vocal tics) in my abnormal-psychology course. A couple
> weeks ago, Michael Kane mentioned that coprolalia (obscene language that
> is felt to be uncontrollable) is rare in this disorder. I have seen
> estimates of 10-15%. On the other hand, the _Textbook of Psychiatry_
> (3rd edition), published lat year by the American Psychiatric Press,
> indicates that coprolalia occurs in 60% of people with Tourette's
> Disorder (page 907, in a chapter written by Charles Popper and Scott
> West). This figure also was in the 2nd edition (1994), but I thought it
> was merely a typographical error. The fact that the same percentage has
> reappeared in the 3rd edition makes me wonder where they might be
> getting this estimate. Can anyone help to clarify this discrepancy
> between the widely cited 10% and the much less widely cited 60%?
>
> Jeff
>
> P.S. I have a subclinical case of Tourette's Disorder, but I never feel
> an uncontrollable urge to swear except after reading occasional posts to
> TIPS.
>
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