Psychosocial functioning of the people with delusional disorders under forensic psychiatric observation in the ward of forensic psychiatry in 1998-2002.

Abstract

In the literature on the subject frequency and kind of deeds committed by people with mental illness in relation to individual clinical diagnoses are analyzed mainly, whereas little attention is paid to the issue of their psychosocial functioning. Intellectual functioning of the people manifesting delusional disorders in the course of committing attributed deeds, was on an average level. The patients' social functioning was on a low level.