The Bidirectional Associations Between Psychotic Experiences and DSM-IV Mental Disorders

John J McGrath¹, Sukanta Saha¹, Ali Al-Hamzawi¹+21

• ¹From the Queensland Centre for Mental Health Research, Park Centre for Mental Health, Wacol, Australia; the Discipline of Psychiatry and the Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Australia; the College of Medicine, Al-Qadisiya University, Diwania Governorate, Iraq; the Department and Institute of Psychiatry, University of São Paulo Medical School, São Paulo, Brazil; the Department of Epidemiologic and Psychosocial Research, National Institute of Psychiatry Ramon de la Fuente, Mexico City; the Department of Psychiatry, Stony Brook University School of Medicine, Stony Brook, N.Y.; the Centre for Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia; the Chronic Diseases Research Center (CEDOC) and the Department of Mental Health, Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal; the Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard University, Boston; the Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital Gasthuisberg, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; the Institute for Development, Research, Advocacy, and Applied Care (IDRAAC), Beirut, Lebanon; the National School of Public Health, Management, and Professional Development, Bucharest, Romania; IRCCS St. John of God Clinical Research Centre, IRCCS Centro S. Giovanni di Dio Fatebenefratelli, Brescia, Italy; the Department of Psychiatry, University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria; Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Deïu, CIBERSAM, Sant Boi de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain; Trimbos-Instituut, Netherlands Institute of Mental Health and Addiction, Utrecht; the Shenzhen Insitute of Mental Health and Shenzhen Kanging Hospital, Shenzhen, China; Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Santé Publique (EHESP), Paris Descartes University, Paris; the Department of Psychological Medicine, Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago, New Zealand; IMIB-Arrixaca, CIBERESP-Murcia, Subdirección General de Salud Mental y Asistencia Psiquiátrica, Servicio Murciano de Salud, El Palmar (Murcia), Spain; Colegio Mayor de Cundinamarca University, Bogotá, Colombia; and the Department of Psychiatry, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond.