Hallucinations

Delusions

Disorganized speech

Psychotic Disorder Treatments

Brief psychotic disorder

Schizophrenia

Shared psychotic disorder

Delusional Disorder

Psychotic Disorder References

Dissociation and Dissociative Disorders Reconsidered: Beyond Sociocognitive and Trauma Models Toward a Transtheoretical Framework

Current Scale to measure Psychotic Disorder Symptoms

Psychosis

A patient reports a firm belief that their neighbor is secretly a government agent who is replacing their thoughts with new ones via a hidden device. The patient cannot be persuaded otherwise, even when presented with contradictory evidence. This profound disconnection from a commonly shared sense of reality is the central feature of which category of mental illness?