Descriptive Aspects of Delusional and Other Psychotic Disorders

Abstract

The spectrum of psychotic disorders ranges from brief psychotic disorders to delusional disorders of various subtypes to schizophrenia. The most important demarcation criterion is social functionality, modern psychiatry placing a lot of emphasis on this aspect. Short-term acute psychotic disorders may be predominantly endogenously dictated, but may also have an increased coefficient of exogenous reactivity, from case to case. In the same way, if in schizophrenia, the etiopathologists of the genetic spectrum, as well as disturbances along the lines of chemical neurotransmitters are indisputable, delusional disorder is one of the psychotic diseases in which social and environmental factors have an increased importance. We want to present the spectrum of psychotic disorders, emphasizing the differences between positive and negative symptomatology, exposing the types of delusional disorders and the centripetal construction of delusions in these situations. It is about sensitivity and delusional thinking, the attribution of meanings and acausal synchronicities. The construction of the stress-diathesis model is varied from case to case, there are "sick people" and not "diseases".