Mentalization and empathy as predictors of in violence in schizophrenic patients: comparison with nonviolent schizophrenic patients, violent controls and nonviolent controls

Although the majority of psychiatric patients never perform any violent or aggressive behaviour and they make up only a small proportion of violent offenders (Husz ár, 2010; O'Reilly et al., 2015; Varshney et al., 2016), the association of major mental disorders and criminality has always been surrounded by high interest and debate. In case of schizophrenia, there is a great variability in the conclusion of studies concerning the risk of violence in subject s with this illness. While some studies suggest that altogether schizophrenia and psychoses per se (i.e.

Source: Psychiatry Research - July 16, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Zsuliet Kristof, Szilvia Kresznerits, Mate Olah, Agoston Gyollai, Katalin Lukacs-Miszler, Tamas Halmai, Konstantinos N. Fountoulakis, Tamas Tenyi, Peter Dome, Xenia Gonda Source Type: research