PMID: 11915704Mar 28, 2002Paper

Psychotic disorders of sexual and erotic content in different diseases

Zhurnal nevrologii i psikhiatrii imeni S.S. Korsakova
A K Danielian

Abstract

The results of long-term (1970-2000) clinical-psychopathological study of 251 patients with different forms of schizophrenia (161 cases), manic-depressive illness (19) and exogenous organic mental disorders (71) are summarized. The dynamics and different manifestations of psychotic disorders of sexual and erotic content described. These disorders were appeared mostly by hallucinations and delusions of various content. Similarity and difference of sexual and erotic symptoms and syndromes for different mental diseases have been determined. The psychoses studied were found to manifest more often in persons with different types of abnormal personality and in those with family history positive for mental disorders as well as in the presence of exogenous pathogenic factors.

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