title: Chronic hallucinatory psychosis. A case report.
abstract: Chronic hallucinatory psychosis is a clinical picture described by Ballet in 1912. Together with paraphrenia and paranoia, it forms a part of the chronic delusions that describes the French nosology separately from schizophrenia. It is characterized by the presence of mental automatism, chronic hallucinations and secondary delusions. This is a fairly uncommon clinical picture in our setting and is often confused with other pictures. We report a case of a 52-year-old woman and we discuss various clinical and diagnostic issues related to the disturbance.
authors.affiliation: Centro de Salud Mental, Cartagena, Murcia. Inmosa77@hotmail.com
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authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Morán Sánchez
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authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: de Concepción Salesa
mesh_terms: D002908:Chronic Disease; D005260:Female; D006212:Hallucinations / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis