Psychopathology of self-consciousness in acute alcoholic hallucinosis
Aliev, Z.N.; Aliev, N.A.
Zhurnal Nevrologii i Psikhiatrii Imeni S.S. Korsakova 105(2): 29-34
2005
ISSN/ISBN: 1997-7298 PMID: 15792139 Document Number: 594698
To study self-consciousness changes in initial, manifesting and final stages of acute alcoholic hallucinosis, 60 patients have been examined. In 51 of them, the disease developed on the background of pseudo-dipsomania or constant hard drinking and in 9 - of abstinent state. initial stage of acute alcoholic hallucinosis was characterized by negative type of self-consciousness reaction. in manifesting stage the following variants of self-consciousness were detected: disturbation (vital, somatophysical, autopsychic), suppression (harmonic, dissociated), depersonalization and hyperactivity. In final stage, there were disactualization, nosognosia (adequate-, hypo- and hypernosognosia, anosognosia), partial and total reintegration of self-consciousness. These disorders of self-consciousness appear to be of prognostic and diagnostic value.