Open AccessInsight in Schizophrenia: Relationship to Positive, Negative and Neurocognitive Dimensions
Author(s) -
Boban Joseph,
Janardhanan C. Narayanaswamy,
Ganesan Venkatasubramanian
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
indian journal of psychological medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.417
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 0975-1564
pISSN - 0253-7176
DOI - 10.4103/0253-7176.150797
Subject(s) - schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , neurocognitive , psychology , construct (python library) , psychosis , etiology , association (psychology) , psychiatry , clinical psychology , cognition , psychotherapist , computer science , programming language
Impairment of insight is considered as the hallmark of schizophrenia. Substantial proportion of patients with schizophrenia has either poor or absent insight. Insight is a multidimensional and dynamic construct which appears to have intricate links with other symptom dimensions of the psychotic illness. A better appreciation of the association that insight shares with other symptom clusters in psychosis could help us in gaining knowledge about aetiology, prognosis and treatment-related facets of the disorder. This is likely to have critical implications in the understanding and therapeutics of schizophrenia.