Abstract
When we talk of psychotic symptoms, we not only refer to schizophrenia, but also to a group of disorders with varied etiologies that include patients with different clinical presentations. Psychotic symptoms can be classified in several groups: positive symptoms, negative symptoms, and cognitive symptoms.When we come across a patient with psychosis in a consultation, we must take a proper case history, placing emphasis on the emotional repercussion of his/her symptoms and the subject's life events. In this regard, the fundamental tool in the interview is a psychopathological examination, which consists of examining different aspects of the person (appearance, attitude, behavior, awareness, orientation, memory and attention, psychomotricity, language, mood and emotion, thinking, cognition and intelligence, physiological habits, and somatic repercussions). With all of this, we can assess whether the patient has a view of reality that is preserved or altered.
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