'An experience of meaning': A 20-year prospective analysis of delusional realities in schizophrenia and affective psychoses.

ABSTRACT: Delusions are transdiagnostic and heterogeneous phenomena with varying degrees of intensity, stability, and dimensional attributes where the boundaries between everyday beliefs and delusional beliefs can be experienced as clearly demarcated, fuzzy, or indistinguishable. This highlights the difficulty in defining delusional realities. All individuals in the current study were evaluated at index and at least one of six subsequential follow-ups over 20 years in the Chicago Longitudinal Study. We assessed 16 distinct delusions categorized as thought or thematic delusions. We also examined the probability of recurrence and the relationships between delusions and hallucinations, depression, anxiety, and negative symptoms. The sample consisted of 262 individuals with schizophrenia vs. affective p

SUBMITTER: Rosen C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9388349 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature