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Normalizing psychotic symptoms

Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, 2006
Individuals in random community samples not diagnosed as mentally ill report a variety of mental states along a continuum from ‘normalcy’ to psychosis. The existence of this continuum suggests that in addition to hallucinations and delusions, other more subtle reflections of psychotic thought processes might occur in ordinary mental life.
Garrett M, Stone D, Turkington D
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Dissociation and psychotic symptoms

American Journal of Psychiatry, 1985
The literature on hysterical or brief reactive psychosis reflects great diversity both in clinical description and theoretical formulation. The authors describe the case of a 17-year-old girl who presented with a diagnosis of bipolar affective disorder, rapid cycling type, but who, in fact, was experiencing dissociative episodes manifested as psychotic
S, Steingard, F H, Frankel
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Amphetamine psychosis and psychotic symptoms

Psychopharmacology, 1979
Amphetamine psychosis has been considered to be a pharmacologic model of schizophrenia. Fifteen previously reported cases were reviewed in which experimental induction of amphetamine psychosis occurred in nonschizophrenic drug abusers. Seven (possibly ten) cases manifested Schneider's first rank symptoms and all had World Health Organization Present ...
D S, Janowsky, C, Risch
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Ethnicity and variability of psychotic symptoms

Current Psychiatry Reports, 2008
This review addresses the influence of ethnicity on the expression of psychotic symptoms and the implications for evaluating and treating patients of diverse backgrounds. Growing clinical and population research from Europe and the United States supports a dimensional interpretation of psychosis, yet the evidence suggests that psychotic symptoms place ...
William A, Vega, Roberto, Lewis-Fernández   +1 more
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Prevalence of Psychotic Symptoms in Delirium

Psychosomatics, 2000
Psychosis in delirium has been an underresearched area. The authors retrospectively examined the prevalence of psychotic symptoms and possible associated factors in the records of 227 consecutive hospitalized patients. These patients had been diagnosed with delirium, according to the DSM-IV criteria and referred to a psychiatry consult service.
R, Webster, S, Holroyd
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Psychotic Symptoms in Frontotemporal Dementia

Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports, 2015
Although psychotic features have long been recognized in association with frontotemporal dementia (FTD), recent genetic discoveries enabling further subtyping of FTD have revealed that psychotic symptoms are frequent in some forms of FTD. Hallucinations and delusions can even precede onset of other cognitive or behavioural symptoms in patients with FTD.
Devin, Hall, Elizabeth C, Finger
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The older patient with psychotic symptoms

Psychiatric Services, 1995
Literature of the past ten years is reviewed to examine psychosocial, psychiatric, organic, and general medical causes of psychotic symptoms in persons over age 65. Being bedfast with poor caretaker relationships and being socially isolated are risk factors for psychosis among elderly persons.
G T, Grossberg, J, Manepalli
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Imagery and psychotic symptoms: a preliminary investigation

Behaviour Research and Therapy, 2002
Recent cognitive accounts of psychotic symptoms have suggested that processes involved in the maintenance of emotional disorders may also be implicated in the maintenance of hallucinations and delusions, and particularly emphasise the appraisals of such symptoms as important.
Morrison, A. P., Beck, A. T., Glentworth, D., Dunn, H., Reid, G. S., Larkin, W., Williams, S.   +6 more
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Airport Wandering as a Psychotic Symptom

Psychiatria Clinica, 2010
It appears that wandering at airports can be the expression in certain psychotic patients whose conflicts relate to separation and reunion as a major area of disturbance. The case reports presented demonstrate a causal relationship between attraction to the airport setting and ideas relating to abandonment and reuniting with family.
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Psychotic symptoms in normal‐pressure hydrocephalus

Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 1979
Two patients with a psychiatric history of about 20 years, and clinical and neuroradiological signs of normal‐pressure hydrocephalus (NPH) are reported. One had a periodic psychosis subsequent to a tuberculous meningitis, and this overshadowed the slight classical symptoms of NPH. She had received at least 120 treatments with electro‐convulsive therapy.
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