ACUTE PARANOID REACTION IN A PATIENT GIVEN CORTICOSTEROID-THERAPY - ACASE-REPORT

Since 1952, we know that in certain cases corticotherapy causes psycho logical secondary effects, nevertheless its causality though leaving l ittle doubt, has never been scrupulously proven. Today, two schools of thought offer a classification of these troubles, one following the u sual categorization in psychiatry (ICD-10, DSM-IV), the other in a fun ctional perspective, following a syndromic continuum. This case repres ented a true need for reintroduction allowing with no possible objecti on, to establish the critical role of corticotherapy in the emergence of the acute psychotic episode. Furthermore, the absence of all other psychiatric symptoms in weaker posology pleads favorably to the classi c categorization procedure, and unfavorably to the functional approach .