Psychopathological characteristics in alcohol hallucinosis and paranoid schizophrenia

@article{Soyka1990PsychopathologicalCI,
  title={Psychopathological characteristics in alcohol hallucinosis and paranoid schizophrenia},
  author={Michael Soyka},
  journal={Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica},
  year={1990},
  volume={81}
}
  • M. Soyka
  • Published 1 March 1990
  • Psychology, Medicine
  • Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica
In a retrospective study psychopathology, psychiatric family history and demographic data were studied in 53 patients with alcohol hallucinosis and an age‐ and sex‐matched control group of 53 patients with paranoid schizophrenia who had been treated at the Psychiatric Hospital of the University of Munich between 1979 and 1986. The psychopathology was assessed by the AMDP system. The paranoid‐hallucinatory symptoms in both conditions were very similar; verbal hallucinations and delusions of… 
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