STUDY ON THE REACTIVE PSYCHOSIS OCCURRED DURING THE REVOLUTION OF DECEMBER 1989 - TIMISOARA, ROMANIA

Citation
M. Lazarescu et al., STUDY ON THE REACTIVE PSYCHOSIS OCCURRED DURING THE REVOLUTION OF DECEMBER 1989 - TIMISOARA, ROMANIA, The European journal of psychiatry, 7(4), 1993, pp. 219-228
Citations number
5
Categorie Soggetti
Psychiatry
ISSN journal
02136163
Volume
7
Issue
4
Year of publication
1993
Pages
219 - 228
Database
ISI
SICI code
0213-6163(1993)7:4<219:SOTRPO>2.0.ZU;2-V
Abstract
Within the framework of a major psycho-social stress induced by a peop le's revolution, 40 reactive psychoses/ which could be thus labelled, according to well-known and accepted criteria (ICD-9, DSM-III-R) have been ascertained. The clinical picture was predominantly paranoid but the symptoms were comprehensible to a great extent in the given circum stances. The occcurence of the reactive psychosis seems to be conditio ned not so much on the direct contact with the events, but mostly on i ndirect information (mass-media, exhaustion). Half of the cases (20) t hat could be followed up for two years from the event have had an unfa vourable social and clinical, development according to the model of en dogenous psychoses. In these cases, an increasing back ground vulnerab ility can be also presumed. The circumstantial vulnerability (stressin g events of the previous year) does not seem to influence the conditio n.