Recognition of hallucinations and delusions in psychosis is not difficult, but classifying them has not been simple. Psychosis in not limited to schizophrenia and occurs in many diagnostic categories of psychotic disorder. The measures used to differentiate between these different categories of psychotic disorder are based on dysfunction, duration, bizarreness of delusions, associated substance use, and presence of mania or depression.
Analyses of the psychopathological characteristics in the various psychotic disorders propose that symptoms can be congregated into five main categories: (1) adjustment in drive and volition; (2) psychosis; (3) adjustment in neurocognition; and (4 and 5) affective impairment in the regulation of the physiological
Analyses of the psychopathological characteristics in the various psychotic disorders propose that symptoms can be congregated into five main categories: (1) adjustment in drive and volition; (2) psychosis; (3) adjustment in neurocognition; and (4 and 5) affective impairment in the regulation of the physiological