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Physical Illness and Psychosis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

J. C. Cutting
J. C. Cutting*
Affiliation:
King's College Hospital and Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, Denmark Hill, London, SE5
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Summary

One hundred psychotic patients referred to a consultation service in a general hospital were compared with 50 psychotic patients without physical illness in a psychiatric unit. Background, mental and cognitive state were evaluated. In addition to providing a list of likely causes of cerebral dysfunction in such a sample, the study revealed an increased incidence of prior depression in those with cerebral dysfunction, and identified a group where psychosocial factors appeared more significant than cerebral dysfunction in determining the psychosis. The various ways in which a psychosis can be associated with a physical condition, and the various forms that it can take even when cerebral dysfunction is present, are discussed.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 136 , Issue 2 , February 1980 , pp. 109 - 119
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1980 

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