Authors:
Yung AR, Lin A.
Authors notes:
World Psychiatry. 2016;15(2):130-1
Keywords:
Psychotic experiences, psychosis, disorder, help-seeking
Abstract:
The term “psychotic experiences” generally refers to subthreshold forms of hallucinations and delusions. However, this term is used inconsistently, sometimes referring to psychotic symptoms (i.e., full threshold positive phenomena), at other times including both sub‐ and full threshold positive symptoms. Here we present a clinical perspective from the ultra high risk (UHR) paradigm, that aims to identify people at high risk of psychotic disorder by the presence of psychotic experiences and associated help‐seeking and functional impairment.