DESCRIPTION OF A SYNDROME AND CASE-REPORT

The differentiation of not-schizophrenic delusional disorders may rais e difficulties in the individual case. Especially as in the current di agnostic systems the here subsummitted clinical pictures are often cla ssified unspecifically. Kraepelin called those disorders accompanied b y hallucinations as ''Paraphrenien'', which were later differentiated by Leonhard depending on the clinical impression. This article shows t he variety of the concept ''non-schizophrenic delusional disorders''. The discussion of a case report demonstrates the difficulties in diagn ostic differentiation.