Impact of psychological trauma on the development of psychotic symptoms: relationship with psychosis proneness.

Impact of psychological trauma on the development of psychotic symptoms: relationship with psychosis proneness JANNEKE SPAUWEN, LYDIA KRABBENDAM, ROSELIND LIEB, HANS-ULRICH WITTCHEN and JIM VAN OS

Social anxiety disorder and shame cognitions in psychosis.

BACKGROUND Social anxiety disorder (SAD) is surprisingly prevalent among people with psychosis and exerts significant impact on social disability. The processes that underlie its development remain unclear. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between shame cognitions arising from a stigmatizing psychosis illness and perceived loss of social status in co-morbid SAD in psych...

A Study of the Phenomenology of Psychosis Induced by Methamphetamine: ‎A Preliminary Research

Background: Psychotic disorder due to industrial drug, such as methamphetamine addiction, is one of the important causes for referral to psychiatric hospital. Psychotic symptoms in these patients are varied. A group of researchers believe that methamphetamine-induced psychosis is completely similar to schizophrenia. Others believe that at least some cases of permanent psychotic clinical manifes...

Evidence that the outcome of developmental expression of psychosis is worse for adolescents growing up in an urban environment.

BACKGROUND The urban environment may increase the risk for psychotic disorder in interaction with pre-existing risk for psychosis, but direct confirmation has been lacking. The hypothesis was examined that the outcome of subclinical expression of psychosis during adolescence, as an indicator of psychosis-proneness, would be worse for those growing up in an urban environment, in terms of having ...

Does normal developmental expression of psychosis combine with environmental risk to cause persistence of psychosis? A psychosis proneness-persistence model.

BACKGROUND Research suggests that low-grade psychotic experiences in the general population are a common but transitory developmental phenomenon. Using two independent general population samples, the hypothesis was examined that common, non-clinical developmental expression of psychosis may become abnormally persistent when synergistically combined with developmental exposures that may impact o...