title: [Insight and psychotic illness].
abstract: This paper reviews the literature concerning the meaning of insight in clinical psychiatry. A number of studies indicate that insight is a complex and multidimensional phenomenon, consisting of at least several partly independent components (awareness of psychotic illness, the ability to recognize psychotic symptoms as pathological, the acceptance of treatment). It is suggested that good insight plays an important role in the course and treatment of psychotic disorders, and of schizophrenia in particular.
authors.affiliation: Katedra i Klinika Psychiatrii AM w Lublinie.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Lamot
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Grzywa
mesh_terms: D003071:Cognition; D006801:Humans; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology*; D012559:Schizophrenia; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology
vernacular_title: Wglad a choroba psychiczna.