Content of Delusions and Hallucinations in Schizophrenia

ISBN-13: 9783838379005 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 128 str.

Opis

The goal of this study was to find out and assess the content of delusions and hallucinations in the patients with schizophrenia, and to examine the impact of personal religiosity and culture on these psychotic phenomena. 1.To evaluate the impact of personal religiosity on presence and the content of religious delusions in patients with schizophrenia. 2.To evaluate the impact of personal religiosity on presence and the content of the world end (apocalyptic) delusions in patients with schizophrenia. 3.To evaluate the impact of personal religiosity on visual hallucinations in patients with schizophrenia. 4.To evaluate the impact of culture on psychotic symptoms in schizophrenia. 5.To evaluate the specificity of paranoid-hallucinatory syndromes in schizophrenia in different cultures. 6.To evaluate the prevalence of delusions of guilt in Catholic patients with schizophrenia and to compare with delusions of guilt of Muslim patients with schizophrenia.

O autorze

I graduated from Medical Faculty of Vilnius University in 1979, started my clinical practice in Psychiatry.At Vilnius Mental Health Center, I have been working as a consultant psychiatrist. I started to work, as an Associate Professor and lecturer in Forensic psychiatry at Mykolas Romeris University. I did some Locum job (c.psychiatry) in the UK