Skip to main page content
U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Dot gov

The .gov means it’s official.
Federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. Before sharing sensitive information, make sure you’re on a federal government site.

Https

The site is secure.
The https:// ensures that you are connecting to the official website and that any information you provide is encrypted and transmitted securely.

Access keys NCBI Homepage MyNCBI Homepage Main Content Main Navigation
. 2019 Jun;13(3):673-676.
doi: 10.1111/eip.12687. Epub 2018 Jun 19.

Ultrahigh risk for developing psychosis and psychotic personality organization

Mark van der Gaag  1   2 , Liesbeth Eurelings-Bontekoe  3 , Helga Ising  2 , David van den Berg  1   2
Affiliations

Ultrahigh risk for developing psychosis and psychotic personality organization

Mark van der Gaag et al. Early Interv Psychiatry. 2019 Jun.

Abstract

Aims: Childhood adversities combined with unsafe parenting may disturb personality development. This study investigated whether psychotic personality organization as defined by Kernberg and assessed with de Dutch Short Form of the MMPI (DSFM) is more prevalent in ultrahigh risk (UHR) for psychosis compared with non-psychotic psychiatric control patients (NPPC).

Methods: A total of 73 UHR and 119 NPPC patients were assessed with the DSFM and the Comprehensive Assessment of at Risk Mental States (CAARMS).

Results: The results showed that the psychotic personality organization (PPO) was not associated to UHR status. The UHR group showed more severe symptoms, particularly higher scores on DSFM subscales negativism (negative affect) and somatization (vague somatic complaints) and severe psychopathology (psychotic symptoms and dissociation).

Conclusion: The PPO profile is not associated to the risk of developing psychosis.

Keywords: detection; personality; psychosis; ultrahigh risk.

PubMed Disclaimer

LinkOut - more resources