Reflection of local and universal historical time in symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia

Abstract

Psychopathological signs reflect general and significant phenomenon, the whole “extract” of a particular historical time, consisting of a bizarre set of events, influential characters twisted in an individual history of a patient. Except detailed “real” clinical picture reflecting socio-political events, authors consider formatting mechanisms of “unreal” content of hallucinatory-delusional symptoms. In such cases, main heroes are mythological characters for example gins or intimidating heroes of modern movies like vampires and zombies. Events in the social sets, such as Facebook and Instagram are also reflected in experiences of patients. Authors focus their attention on a paradox of logical reflection of events in the context of delusional symptoms versus paralogical interpretations. Research is based on clinical cases, and shows up a spectrum of mechanisms of how events are either included or ignored in the forming a content of psychopathological experiences.

Disclosure of interest

The authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.