The continuity of psychotic experiences in the general population.

By Louise Johns, J. van Os. Clinical Psychology Review, 2001

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Subfields: Psychiatry and Mental health, Philosophy

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Childhood abuse as a risk factor for psychotic experiences (2003, background): “As psychosis has been shown to vary continuously in general population samples and psychotic experiences per se are not always associated with need for care (20), the psychosis outcome at T2 was specified at three levels, two involving severity of positive symptoms of psychosis and one using additio”
Childhood trauma, psychosis and schizophrenia: a literature review with theoretical and clinical implications (2005, background): “It is likely that psychotic experiences are essentially normal phenomena that occur on a continuum in the general population (150, 151).”
Alien voices and inner dialogue: towards a developmental account of auditory verbal hallucinations (2004, background): “Secondly, a growing consensus that hallucinations, verbal and otherwise, are not necessarily signs of pathology (Feelgood & Rantzen, 1994; Johns & van Os, 2001; Pearson et al., 2001; Reese, 1971; Tien, 1991) has contributed to a view of AVHs as potentially part of normal as well as abnormal…”
Psychosis as a state of aberrant salience: a framework linking biology, phenomenology, and pharmacology in schizophrenia. (2003, neutral): “So long as these events (delusions and hallucinations) remain private affairs, they are not an illness by society’s standards (84, 85).”
Measuring delusional ideation: the 21-item Peters et al. Delusions Inventory (PDI). (2004, background): “Originating in the seminal work of Rado (1953) and Meehl (1962), the continuity, or dimensionality, of psychotic characteristics is now firmly established among psychologists (Eysenck 1986; Costello 1994; Claridge 1997) and, increasingly, among psychiatrists (van Os et al.”
A systematic review and meta-analysis of the psychosis continuum: evidence for a psychosis proneness–persistence–impairment model of psychotic disorder (2008, background): “There is evidence, however, that transitory developmental expression of psychosis (psychosis proneness) may become abnormally persistent (persistence) and subsequently clinically relevant (impairment), depending on the degree of environmental risk the person is additionally exposed to.”