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The Differential Diagnosis of Organic vs. Functional Psychotic Symptoms

Classic Reprints


Winter 2005 - Table of Contents

Contents
Editorial
President’s Message/Jeff Barnett

From the Editor/Ed Lundeen

Special Editor’s Column -- The Lost Tribe/Stanley Graham


The National Perspective
New Faces – New Opportunities /Pat DeLeon

Washington Update/Ron Levant

APA Council of Representatives Report/Melba Vasquez

Florida’s Hurricane’s/Hilda Besner


Classic Reprints
The Dark Side of Evidence Based Treatment/Ron Fox

On Being Called a Provider/Karen Shore

Hallucinations/Ed Zuckerman

Schneiders First Rank Symptoms

Consumer Groups Listing


Practioner's Information
How Psychotherapy Works/Stanley Moldawsky

Pharmacotherapy in GAD/Dan Egli

The Importance of Documenting Your Training/J.B. Goebel

LGB Clients amd Their Therapists/Armand R. Cerbone and Kristin A. Hancock

Stalkers: Not Just for celebrities Anymore, Part 1/Linda Grounds

The 97532 Procedure Code/Peter Magaro


Early Career Professionals and Continuing Education
My Experience with Psychopharmacology Training/Sally Horwatt

Mentors Corner/Miguel E. Gallardo and Michael J. Murphy


Eine Kleine Dummheit
A New DSM Disorder/Rodney Timbrook

(Editor’s Note – Thanks to Ed Zuckerman for posting this on the Div 42 Listserve. We encourage you to save this)

Organically based Hallucinations/Delusions

  1. Sharply demarcated
  2. Vivid and well formed
  3. Poly chromic and/or polysonic
  4. Hypermobile (e.g. bugs creep, flashes jump). Accompanied by terror, apprehension
  5. Accompanied by terror, apprehension; Ego-alien - “Not like me.”
  6. Perseverative quality
  7. Patient acts as though he/she sees/hears/feels experience

Psychologically based Hallucinations/Delusions

  1. Fleeting and transient
  2. Vague, shadowy, misty
  3. Usually in shades of gray
  4. Usually static
  5. Patient has an idea that he/she sees, feels, etc, but then does not act consistently
  6. may be associated with his/her psychodynamics

I would also add to the differential Temporal Lobe Epilepsy, where one should look for inter-ichtal symptoms and religious or spiritual pre-occupation as symptoms.