Follow-up study of hysterical psychosis, reactive/psychogenic psychosis, and schizophrenia
| Autor: | Jiri Modestin, Thomas Erni, Paul Sonderegger |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2001 |
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Adult Male Psychosis medicine.medical_specialty lcsh:RC435-571 Hysteria Patient Readmission Diagnosis Differential Recurrence lcsh:Psychiatry Female patient medicine Psychogenic disease Humans Psychiatry Hysterical psychosis Psychiatric Status Rating Scales Psychotropic Drugs Follow up studies Middle Aged medicine.disease Combined Modality Therapy Psychophysiologic Disorders Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology Psychotic Disorders Schizophrenia Female Schizophrenic Psychology Psychology Psychogenic psychosis Antipsychotic Agents Follow-Up Studies |
| Zdroj: | Comprehensive Psychiatry, Vol 42, Iss 1, Pp 51-56 (2001) |
| Popis: | The present study was undertaken to learn more about the longer-term course of nonaffective functional psychoses, including hysterical psychosis. A group of 48 female patients diagnosed with hysterical psychosis, nonhysterical reactive/psychogenic psychosis, and schizophrenia at their first admission were reassessed after an average follow-up period of 11.6 years. Seventy-five percent were receiving out-patient treatment; less than half were on neurolep-tics, and only 35% were rehospitalized. The patients suffered from a few, mostly unspecific, symptoms and were relatively well adjusted socially. No differences were found between original diagnostic categories regarding all variables studied. Hysterical psychosis does not appear to be a special clinical entity, distinguishable from other reactive/psychogenic psychoses in the short term and from other nonaffective functional psychoses in the longer term. The symptomatology and clinical presentation of nonaffective functional psychoses at first admission do not allow any prognostic longer-term forecast, and the initial differences between individual psychoses tend to disappear over time. |
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