6A22

Test Dis

Essential Feature

  • An enduring pattern of unusual speech, perceptions, beliefs and behaviours that are not of sufficient intensity or duration to meet the diagnostic requirements of Schizophrenia, Schizoaffective Disorder, or Delusional Disorder. The pattern includes several of the following symptoms:
    • Constricted affect, such that the individual appears cold and aloof;
    • Behaviour or appearance that is odd, eccentric, unusual, or peculiar and is inconsistent with cultural or subcultural norms;
    • Poor rapport with others and a tendency towards social withdrawal;
    • Unusual beliefs, magical thinking or paranoid ideation influencing the person’s behaviour in ways that are inconsistent with subcultural norms, but not reaching the diagnostic requirements for a delusion;
    • Unusual beliefs, magical thinking or paranoid ideation influencing the person’s behaviour in ways that are inconsistent with subcultural norms, but not reaching the diagnostic requirements for a delusion;
    • Unusual perceptual distortions such as bodily illusions, depersonalization, derealization, or hallucinations;
    • Suspiciousness or paranoid ideas;
    • Occasional transient psychotic episodes with intense illusions, auditory or other hallucinations and delusion-like ideas;
    • Vague, circumstantial, metaphorical, overelaborate, or stereotyped thinking, manifest in odd speech without gross incoherence;
    • Obsessive ruminations without a sense that the obsession is foreign or unwanted, often with body dysmorphic, sexual, or aggressive content.
  • Has never met the diagnostic requirements for Schizophrenia, Schizoaffective Disorder, or Delusional Disorder. That is, transient delusions, hallucinations, formal thought disorder, or experiences of influence, passivity or control may occur, but do not last for more than 1 month.

Qualifiers

  • An enduring pattern of unusual speech, perceptions, beliefs and behaviours that are not of sufficient intensity or duration to meet the diagnostic requirements of Schizophrenia, Schizoaffective Disorder, or Delusional Disorder. The pattern includes several of the following symptoms:
    • Constricted affect, such that the individual appears cold and aloof;
    • Behaviour or appearance that is odd, eccentric, unusual, or peculiar and is inconsistent with cultural or subcultural norms;
    • Poor rapport with others and a tendency towards social withdrawal;
    • Unusual beliefs, magical thinking or paranoid ideation influencing the person’s behaviour in ways that are inconsistent with subcultural norms, but not reaching the diagnostic requirements for a delusion;
    • Unusual beliefs, magical thinking or paranoid ideation influencing the person’s behaviour in ways that are inconsistent with subcultural norms, but not reaching the diagnostic requirements for a delusion;
    • Unusual perceptual distortions such as bodily illusions, depersonalization, derealization, or hallucinations;
    • Suspiciousness or paranoid ideas;
    • Occasional transient psychotic episodes with intense illusions, auditory or other hallucinations and delusion-like ideas;
    • Vague, circumstantial, metaphorical, overelaborate, or stereotyped thinking, manifest in odd speech without gross incoherence;
    • Obsessive ruminations without a sense that the obsession is foreign or unwanted, often with body dysmorphic, sexual, or aggressive content.
  • Has never met the diagnostic requirements for Schizophrenia, Schizoaffective Disorder, or Delusional Disorder. That is, transient delusions, hallucinations, formal thought disorder, or experiences of influence, passivity or control may occur, but do not last for more than 1 month.

Boundary with Other Disorders and Normality

  • An enduring pattern of unusual speech, perceptions, beliefs and behaviours that are not of sufficient intensity or duration to meet the diagnostic requirements of Schizophrenia, Schizoaffective Disorder, or Delusional Disorder. The pattern includes several of the following symptoms:
    • Constricted affect, such that the individual appears cold and aloof;
    • Behaviour or appearance that is odd, eccentric, unusual, or peculiar and is inconsistent with cultural or subcultural norms;
    • Poor rapport with others and a tendency towards social withdrawal;
    • Unusual beliefs, magical thinking or paranoid ideation influencing the person’s behaviour in ways that are inconsistent with subcultural norms, but not reaching the diagnostic requirements for a delusion;
    • Unusual beliefs, magical thinking or paranoid ideation influencing the person’s behaviour in ways that are inconsistent with subcultural norms, but not reaching the diagnostic requirements for a delusion;
    • Unusual perceptual distortions such as bodily illusions, depersonalization, derealization, or hallucinations;
    • Suspiciousness or paranoid ideas;
    • Occasional transient psychotic episodes with intense illusions, auditory or other hallucinations and delusion-like ideas;
    • Vague, circumstantial, metaphorical, overelaborate, or stereotyped thinking, manifest in odd speech without gross incoherence;
    • Obsessive ruminations without a sense that the obsession is foreign or unwanted, often with body dysmorphic, sexual, or aggressive content.
  • Has never met the diagnostic requirements for Schizophrenia, Schizoaffective Disorder, or Delusional Disorder. That is, transient delusions, hallucinations, formal thought disorder, or experiences of influence, passivity or control may occur, but do not last for more than 1 month.

Additional Features

  • An enduring pattern of unusual speech, perceptions, beliefs and behaviours that are not of sufficient intensity or duration to meet the diagnostic requirements of Schizophrenia, Schizoaffective Disorder, or Delusional Disorder. The pattern includes several of the following symptoms:
    • Constricted affect, such that the individual appears cold and aloof;
    • Behaviour or appearance that is odd, eccentric, unusual, or peculiar and is inconsistent with cultural or subcultural norms;
    • Poor rapport with others and a tendency towards social withdrawal;
    • Unusual beliefs, magical thinking or paranoid ideation influencing the person’s behaviour in ways that are inconsistent with subcultural norms, but not reaching the diagnostic requirements for a delusion;
    • Unusual beliefs, magical thinking or paranoid ideation influencing the person’s behaviour in ways that are inconsistent with subcultural norms, but not reaching the diagnostic requirements for a delusion;
    • Unusual perceptual distortions such as bodily illusions, depersonalization, derealization, or hallucinations;
    • Suspiciousness or paranoid ideas;
    • Occasional transient psychotic episodes with intense illusions, auditory or other hallucinations and delusion-like ideas;
    • Vague, circumstantial, metaphorical, overelaborate, or stereotyped thinking, manifest in odd speech without gross incoherence;
    • Obsessive ruminations without a sense that the obsession is foreign or unwanted, often with body dysmorphic, sexual, or aggressive content.
  • Has never met the diagnostic requirements for Schizophrenia, Schizoaffective Disorder, or Delusional Disorder. That is, transient delusions, hallucinations, formal thought disorder, or experiences of influence, passivity or control may occur, but do not last for more than 1 month.

Symptom Qualifier Scales

  • An enduring pattern of unusual speech, perceptions, beliefs and behaviours that are not of sufficient intensity or duration to meet the diagnostic requirements of Schizophrenia, Schizoaffective Disorder, or Delusional Disorder. The pattern includes several of the following symptoms:
    • Constricted affect, such that the individual appears cold and aloof;
    • Behaviour or appearance that is odd, eccentric, unusual, or peculiar and is inconsistent with cultural or subcultural norms;
    • Poor rapport with others and a tendency towards social withdrawal;
    • Unusual beliefs, magical thinking or paranoid ideation influencing the person’s behaviour in ways that are inconsistent with subcultural norms, but not reaching the diagnostic requirements for a delusion;
    • Unusual beliefs, magical thinking or paranoid ideation influencing the person’s behaviour in ways that are inconsistent with subcultural norms, but not reaching the diagnostic requirements for a delusion;
    • Unusual perceptual distortions such as bodily illusions, depersonalization, derealization, or hallucinations;
    • Suspiciousness or paranoid ideas;
    • Occasional transient psychotic episodes with intense illusions, auditory or other hallucinations and delusion-like ideas;
    • Vague, circumstantial, metaphorical, overelaborate, or stereotyped thinking, manifest in odd speech without gross incoherence;
    • Obsessive ruminations without a sense that the obsession is foreign or unwanted, often with body dysmorphic, sexual, or aggressive content.
  • Has never met the diagnostic requirements for Schizophrenia, Schizoaffective Disorder, or Delusional Disorder. That is, transient delusions, hallucinations, formal thought disorder, or experiences of influence, passivity or control may occur, but do not last for more than 1 month.