Conference paper

SCHYZOTIPY: FROM PERSONALITY ORGANIZATION TO TRANSITION TO SCHIZOPHRENIA

Branka Aukst Margetić orcid.org/0000-0002-7830-224X ; Department of Psychiatry, Univeristy Hospital Center Sestre milosrdnice, Zagreb, Croatia ; Croatian Chatolic University, Zagreb, Croatia ; School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Dalibor Karlović orcid.org/0000-0001-6538-7240 ; Department of Psychiatry, Univeristy Hospital Center Sestre milosrdnice, Zagreb, Croatia ;Croatian Chatolic University, Zagreb, Croatia; School of Dental Medicine, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

The traditional medical model of schizophrenia assumes a categorical view of the syndrome. On the contrary, the dimensional
approach to schizophrenia infers that schizophrenia is not a discrete illness entity, but that psychotic symptoms differ in quantitative
ways from normal experiences and behaviours. Schizotypy comprise a set of inherited traits reflected in personality organization,
which presents as qualitatively similar to schizophrenia. Schizotipy is in line with continuum hypothesis of schizophrenia where
different combinations of genes and environmental risk factors result in a range of different phenotypic expressions lying on a
continuum from normal through to clinical psychosis. We discuss evidences for the continuity of psychotic symptoms to normal
experiences and theoretical and future research implications of such a continuum.

Keywords

schyzotypy; schizophrenia; genetics; development; personality

Hrčak ID:

271730

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/271730

Publication date:

19.10.2021.

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