Types of Psychotic Disorders

Sources Medically Reviewed on 11/17/2021 Reviewed by Jennifer Casarella, MD on November 17, 2021
SOURCES:
Cardiff and Vale Action for Mental Health: "Practical Guidelines for Caring for the Person With Paraphrenia (Late Onset Psychosis)."
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health: "The Different Types of Psychosis," "What is Psychosis?"
Harvard Medical School: "Delusional Disorder."
Medscape: "Brief Psychotic Disorder," "Shared Psychotic Disorder."
MentalHealth.gov: "Psychotic Disorders."
National Alliance on Mental Illness: "Early Psychosis and Psychosis," "Mental Health Medications," "Psychotherapy," "Schizophrenia," "Support."
National Drug & Alcohol Research Centre: "Psychosis + Substance Use."
NHS: "Psychosis -- Causes."
Ohio State University: "A Beautiful Mind: Analyzing How Schizophrenia is Portrayed in Movies versus Reality."
Personality and Individual Differences: "A psychobiographical analysis of Brian Douglas Wilson: Creativity, drugs, and models of schizophrenic and affective disorders."
Sadock, Benjamin J. Kaplan & Sadock's Concise Textbook of Clinical Psychiatry, 2008.
Slate: "Two Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest."
Brian Wilson website.
Reviewed by Jennifer Casarella, MD on November 17, 2021
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