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LES DECOMPENSATIONS SCHIZOPHRENIQUES POST-TRAUMATIQUES. A PROPOS DE 6 CAS DE SCHIZOPHRENIE TRAUMATIQUE

par De Mol, Jacques ;Jurfest, Anita ;Brihaye, Jean
Référence L'Encéphale, 8, 1, page (17-24)
Publication Publié, 1982

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The authors describe 6 cases of post-traumatic schizophrenia and make a critical review of the literature concerning this unusual post-traumatic personality disturbance. Various schizophrenic manifestations are observed: they principally consist of delusion, hallucination, paranoid and mystical ideas, autism, psychomotor instability, fugues. Post-traumatic schizophrenia occurs mostly in young men, under thirty years of age. The severity of traumatic brain-injury appears irrelevant in its genesis. Temporal lobes are more often involved (one-third of the cases). Pre-traumatic personality disturbances are the main factor, as demonstrated by the anamnesis and by the results of a Rorschach test.