Dysphoria: A Key for ‘Understanding’ Delusion?

The ‘nonunderstandability’ that traditional psychopathology attributes to ‘true’ delusion does not have a clear demarcation line, but, rather, it is a continuum of various delusional experiences. The attention paid to emotional situations and, specifically, to dysphoria, often contributes to making...

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Published in:Psychopathology 2000-07, Vol.33 (4), p.215-219
Main Authors: Ballerini, Arnaldo, Ballerini, Andrea Carlo
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult and adolescent clinical studies
Biological and medical sciences
Humans
Irritable Mood
Medical sciences
Other psychotic disorders
Prognosis
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Psychoses
Schizophrenia, Paranoid - classification
Schizophrenia, Paranoid - psychology
Severity of Illness Index
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Summary:The ‘nonunderstandability’ that traditional psychopathology attributes to ‘true’ delusion does not have a clear demarcation line, but, rather, it is a continuum of various delusional experiences. The attention paid to emotional situations and, specifically, to dysphoria, often contributes to making the delusional phenomenon, and, above all, its persistence, more understandable. A positive correlation between productive psychotic symptoms and the dysphoric mood often prevails in delusions with unfavorable prognoses.
ISSN:0254-4962
1423-033X
DOI:10.1159/000029146