The clinical characteristics of schizophrenia and acute alcoholic hallucinosis occurring with psychopathological phenomena of a homosexual content
Guliamov, M.G.; Myslitskaia, L.K.
Zhurnal Nevropatologii i Psikhiatrii Imeni S.S. Korsakova 92(3): 70-74
1992
ISSN/ISBN: 0044-4588 PMID: 1332336 Document Number: 392102
Based on clinico-psychopathological and catamnestic examinations of 118 patients, the authors studied and compared the characteristics of the clinical picture, dynamics and outcome of schizophrenia and acute alcoholic hallucinosis associated with delirious, hallucinatory and pseudohallucinatory disorders of homosexual nature. Base the prognostic importance of psychopathological phenomena of homosexual nature in patients with schizophrenia and acute alcoholic hallucinosis. The rise in the clinical picture of schizophrenia and acute alcoholic hallucinosis of the portion of psychopathological phenomena of homosexual nature, not entering the number of permanent and necessary manifestations of the indicated clinico-nosological forms of psychoses, occurring, however, in the rudimentary form may be viewed as a manifestation of pathomorphism. It has been demonstrated that if schizophrenia and acute alcoholic hallucinosis are associated with psychopathological phenomena of homosexual nature, this may enhance the risk of the committing by the patients of grave aggressive and suicidal actions.