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KMID : 0897520040090010010
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Journal of Korean Association of Social Psychiatry
2004 Volume.9 No. 1 p.10 ~ p.15
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Persecutors in Schizophrenics with Persecutory Delusions Treated in a University Hospital
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Kim Seung-Gon
Kim Hack-Ryul
Kim Sang-Hoon
Park Sang-Hag
Kim Jae-Min
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Abstract
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Objectives： The authors investigated changes of persecutors and persecutors’ behavior, relationship of frequency of persecutors and persecutors’ behavior with sociodemographic and clinical variables in schizophrenics with persecutory delusions.
Methods：Data were collected from hospital records of 60 patients with persecutory delusions in schizophrenics admitted to psychiatric ward chosun University Hospital from Jan 2001 to June 2003. Persecutors were classified into 7 categories by author(family·relatives, neighbours, friend·fellow, political authorities, supernatural beings, unspecified person, things·illness). Persecutors’ behaviors were classified into 7 categories by Hall CS and Van de Castle(killing, physical attack, chasing-confining, destruction, rejection, verbal abuse, convert).
Results： 1) Unspecified person was most frequent in persecutors. 2) Only family and relatives in persecutors was more frequent in female than in male(p<0.05). 3) Verbal abuse was most frequent in persecutors’ behavior. 4) Only physical attack in persecutors’ behaviors was more frequent in female than in male(p<0.01). 5) Only supernatural beings in persecutors was more frequent in religionist than in atheist(p<0.01).
Conclusion： Persecutors in Schizophrenics with persecutory delusions were transmitted from political power and secret agent in decade of the 1960s, 1970s to unspecified person in 1990s-early 2000s, and persecutors’ behaviors were transmitted from toxic drugs and toxic materials in decade of the 1960s, 1970s, to verbal abuse in 1980s-early 2000s. These findings suggest that persecutors and persecutors’ behavior in schizophrenics with persecutory delusions change according to political and socio-cultural changes.
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KEYWORD
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Schizophrenia, Persecutory delusions, Persecutors, Persecutors’ behaviors
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