A 29-year-old man is involuntarily transferred by the police to the Psychiatric Emergency Room. He exhibits intense irritability, aggressiveness, disorganized behavior and reiterated breaking of civic standards. According to the… Click to show full abstract
A 29-year-old man is involuntarily transferred by the police to the Psychiatric Emergency Room. He exhibits intense irritability, aggressiveness, disorganized behavior and reiterated breaking of civic standards. According to the patient's family, behavioral alterations began a month ago. They have progressively worsened since then with the onset of hallucinatory behavior (soliloquies), persecutory delusions and hostility towards his neighbors.
               
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