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The authors discuss the case of a 36 year old woman who, for several years, has been delirious and who has shown signs of an affective disorder, alternatively suffering from hypomanic and depressive episodes. What is most interesting is that she expresses erotomaniac delusions while she is elated and persecutory delusions while she is depressed. The authors propose an psychopathological explanation for her disorder.
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The results of long-term follow-up studies indicate the existence of significant differences in the outcome of neurotic and psychopathic states. The most unfavorable outcome was seen in patients with asthenic and unstable psychopathy. A classification of a "good" and "poor" outcome of the disease by means of a computer permitted to distinguish the most significant anamnestic and clinical signs indicating a possible unfavorable prognosis. In the most unfavorable variant of the disease (21% of 124 psychopathic patients) in asthenic, unstable, excitative and hysterical psychopathy there were states with prevalently neurotic and psychopathic symptomatology, nonspecific for any of the above-mentioned forms of psychopathy.
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BACKGROUND: This report describes the independent application of DSM-III criteria to the adoptees and relatives in the Provincial sample of the Danish Adoption Study of Schizophrenia of Kety and colleagues. We report these results and combine them with those reported previously for the Copenhagen sample to form the National sample. METHODS: Personal interviews and institutional record summaries of adoptees and biological and adoptive relatives were "blindly" diagnosed using DSM-III criteria. "Schizophrenia spectrum" was a priori defined as schizophrenia; schizoaffective disorder, mainly schizophrenic subtype; and schizotypal and paranoid personality disorders. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: In the Provincial sample, the prevalence of "spectrum" disorders was significantly greater in biological relatives of schizophrenia spectrum vs control adoptees. The results were also consistent with the genetic transmission of individual diagnoses within the spectrum. When combined into the National sample, the results provided strong evidence for (1) the genetic transmission of DSM-III schizophrenia; (2) a genetic relationship between DSM-III schizophrenia, mainly schizophrenic schizoaffective disorder, and schizotypal personality disorder; and (3) the absence of a significant genetic relationship between the schizophrenia spectrum and either psychotic nonspectrum disorders, major depression, or anxiety disorders. We found no evidence for the familial environment transmission of schizophrenia spectrum disorders. These results are consistent with the findings reported by Kety and coworkers from their diagnostic review.
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Reactive psychoses are relatively often diagnosed in Norway, although they are not operationalized in any classificatory system and the reliability may be questioned. The aim of this study was to define a group of reactive paranoid psychoses and compare its long-term outcome to the group of nonreactive paranoid psychoses and to paranoid schizophrenia. Approximately 200 out of 301 delusional subjects earlier studied by Retterstöl have recently been interviewed semistructurally, making a total follow-up period of 22-38 years. Diagnoses at discharge have been assessed retrospectively before the present interview, with a polydiagnostic approach. Based upon Kendler's criteria of delusional disorder and influenced by Jaspers, the concept of reactive delusional disorder has been operationalized. Results from the first 125 interviews show 31 cases of Kendler's delusional disorder, of which 16 are diagnosed as reactive delusional disorder. Outcome in this group is most favorable, and especially good outcome is found in acute reactive delusional disorder.
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