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The characteristics of delusions: a cluster analysis of deluded subjects
P A Garety1, B S Everitt, D R Hemsley
1Department of Psychology, University of London, United Kingdom.
European Archives of Psychiatry and Neurological Sciences
|January 1, 1988
Abstract:
Using a group of 55 psychotic subjects, 11 belief characteristics of delusions were recently assessed. The present study describes a cluster analysis of these data to investigate whether subjects showing characteristic patterns of delusional experience form relatively distinct groups. Three sub-groups were generated, each of which was given a descriptive label: hebephrenic, paranoid and depressed. The characteristics of these groups are described, in terms of associations with measures of mental state and belief content.