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Chronic Hallucinatory Disorder “an Equivalent” of Delusional Disorder

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Chronic hallucinatory psychosis is a disease that has long been considered in the French literature, but it is neglected by the current Anglo-Saxon classification systems, which generally relegate it among the atypical forms of Schizophrenia.

The study show that hallucinatory psychosis may be considered a disorder like delusional disorder but characterized by hallucinations as a primary phenomenon as in the French definition of Ballet but with a favorable prognosis in terms of quality of daily life and social life, similarly to the think of Ey.

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    Alfredo Carlo Altamura

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Mauri, M.C., Paletta, S., Di Pace, C., Rovera, C., Marotta, G., Altamura, A.C. (2018). Chronic Hallucinatory Disorder “an Equivalent” of Delusional Disorder. In: Brambilla, P., Mauri, M., Altamura, A. (eds) Hallucinations in Psychoses and Affective Disorders. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75124-5_4

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