The Experience of Delusion Content Psycholinguistic Analysis in Paranoid Schizophrenia Onset

Abstract

The article presents the experience of delusion content psycholinguistic analysis in paranoid schizophrenia onset. The 100 medical histories of men and women who have the diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia (F20.0) have been studied. The patients have been divided into four groups according to their sex and age (adolescence and the first period of maturity), when the disease onset had been. To implement the delusion content psycholinguistic analysis at a lexical level of language the inductive content analysis has been used and to do this at a syntactical level of language the deductive content analysis has been used. The statistical manipulation variants of content analysis’s data and the ways of data graphic representation have been demonstrated. The conclusion that psycholinguistic analysis exposes the features of delusion content in the patients’ groups sorted out according their sex and age when paranoid schizophrenia onset had been have been done.