A Trivial Delict – an Unusually Rich Psychopathological Finding

Summary

The authors refer to clinical picture of paranoid – hallucination psychosis in a 55-year woman, prosecuted for a delict of damaging other people’s things. It was the case of the expert opinions, forensic and psychiatric examination. Her clinical picture was dominated with acoustic verbal hallucinations, reflex hallucinations, Kahlbaum functional hallucinations, coenesthetic and various physical hallucinations. The verbal hallucinations were partly of the character of commenting hallucinations. The disturbances of perception were supplemented with systematic paranoid persecution delusions. The disturbances in emotivity typical for schizophrenia as well as structural disturbances in thinking or personality disorders were not detected. The assessed woman was employed and performed a professionally qualified work. In spite of the about 6-year lasting mental disorder, this disorder was not detected and treated.

Key words:
forensic – psychiatric practice, paranoid psychosis, verbal hallucinations, reflex hallucinations, Kahlbaum hallucinations, physical hallucinations, persecution delusions.