[Delusions of self-justification, innocence, forgiveness and justification in schizophrenia]

Delusions of selfjustification directed towards a denial of imaginary guiltiness are characterized by an activity of delusional speech and behaviour. In delusions of innocence the patients partially acknowledge imaginary guiltiness, their opinions and behaviour are passive. These forms of delusions are encountered in the structure of depressions with delusions, paranoid-depressive, hallucinatory-paranoid, acute delusional and paraphrenic syndromes. Delusions of appeal and justification are frequently seen in the structure of paraphrenic syndromes. These forms of delusions occupy a subordinate position in relation to other forms of psychopathological structures.