Psychiatria pre prax 4/2009

Paraphrenic schizophrenia

The case report presents the case of 43-year old patient, treated for paraphrenic schizophrenia at the psychiatry clinic for the first time in her life. The case history of the patient contained several factors that had influenced the rise of the disorder. The clinical presentation was dominated by paranoid delusions that had an important impact on the patient´s behavior and affectivity a relatively high resistance to the pharmacotherapy, typical for the disorder, appeared during therapy. We consider that the success of the therapy in the present case was in the reduction of paranoid contents in the patient ´s thinking as well as in the decrease of the implication of these contents on the patient ´s behaviour and affectivity.

Keywords: paraphrenic schizophrenia, paranoid syndrome