Insight and psychotic illness
Lamot, G.; Grzywa, A.
Psychiatria Polska 31(1): 97-110
1997
ISSN/ISBN: 0033-2674 PMID: 9527659 Document Number: 482413
This paper reviews the literature concerning the meaning of insight in clinical psychiatry. A number of studies indicate that insight is a complex and multidimensional phenomenon, consisting of at least several partly independent components (awareness of psychotic illness, the ability to recognize psychotic symptoms as pathological, the acceptance of treatment). It is suggested that good insight plays an important role in the course and treatment of psychotic disorders, and of schizophrenia in particular.