Dysphoria: a key for 'understanding' delusion?
The 'nonunderstandability' that traditional psychopathology attributes to 'true' delusion does not have a clear demarcation line, but, rather, it is a continuum of various delusional experiences. The attention paid to emotional situations and, specifically, to dysphoria, often contributes to making the delusional phenomenon, and, above all, its persistence, more understandable. A positive correlation between productive psychotic symptoms and the dysphoric mood often prevails in delusions with unfavorable prognoses.
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Psychiatric Specialization School, University of Florence, Florence, Italy. ballerini.ciardi@iol.it
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D006801:Humans; D007508:Irritable Mood; D011379:Prognosis; D012563:Schizophrenia, Paranoid / Q000145:classification / Q000523:psychology*; D012720:Severity of Illness Index