Am J Psychiatry 1981; 138:1484-1486
Copyright © 1981 by American Psychiatric Association
Transcultural investigation of recent symptomatology of schizophrenia in China
H Yu-Fen and T Neng
During the past 15 years a number of new symptoms, rarely seen in the past,
have been observed with increasing frequency among Chinese schizophrenic
patients. The authors identify the following symptoms: discordant
(dissociative) syndrome, denial of lineage, delusion of leadership lineage,
delusion of being married, child-bearing delusion, delusion of being
despised, delusion of imminent catastrophe, delusion of influence,
inferential delusion, delusion of being experimented on, delusion of
conducting an experiment, delusion of being cultivated by superiors,
delusion of being tested, delusion of being examined, delusion of impending
arrest, delusion of being slandered, mirror symptom, and syndrome of
changing dialects.
