Doomsday delusions of religious content (apocalyptic version)

Kopeyko G.I.; Orekhova P.V.; Borisova O.A.; Gedevani E.V.; Kaleda V.G.

doi:https://doi.org/10.17116/jnevro20211210917

Kopeyko G.I.

Mental Health Research Center

Scopus AuthorID: 6506149368
ResearcherID: M-2029-2013
ORCID: 0000-0002-8580-9890

Orekhova P.V.

Mental Health Research Center

Borisova O.A.

Mental Health Research Center

Gedevani E.V.

Mental Health Research Center

Kaleda V.G.

Mental Health Research Centre

SPIN RSCI: 9035-3290
Scopus AuthorID: 56765570100
ResearcherID: K-5466-2013
ORCID: 0000-0002-1209-1443

Doomsday delusions of religious content (apocalyptic version)

Authors:

Kopeyko G.I., Orekhova P.V., Borisova O.A., Gedevani E.V., Kaleda V.G.

More about the authors

Journal: S.S. Korsakov Journal of Neurology and Psychiatry. 2021;121(9): 7‑12

DOI: 10.17116/jnevro20211210917

Read: 3904 times

Download PDF (RU)

Contact the author

Table of contents

To cite this article:

Kopeyko GI, Orekhova PV, Borisova OA, Gedevani EV, Kaleda VG. Doomsday delusions of religious content (apocalyptic version). S.S. Korsakov Journal of Neurology and Psychiatry. 2021;121(9):7‑12. (In Russ.)
https://doi.org/10.17116/jnevro20211210917

Подписка 2026 Журнал неврологии и психиатрии им. С.С. Корсакова (S.S. Korsakov Journal of Neurology and Psychiatry)

Использование инфографики авторами научных работ

Close metadata

OBJECTIVE

To define psychopathological and phenomenological characteristics of the apocalyptic variant of end-world delusion with religious content (EWDRC) in schizophrenia, to identify features of clinical dynamics of delusional disorders and their interaction with delusional behavior of patients.

MATERIAL AND METHODS

A total of 28 patients with schizophrenia (F20.01, F20.02 according to ICD-10) and EWDRC were examined. Clinical-psychopathological and follow-up methods were used.

RESULTS

The development of the end-world delusional ideas occurred in unstructured affective-delusional disorder with acute sensual delusion. Two types of EWDRC were differentiated: with predominance of perception delusion or picturesque delusion. These types differed by acuity and massiveness of psychotic symptomatology, the mono- or polythematic character of delusional disorders, affect type, as well as by the duration and intensity of the development of delusional stages, and in their phenomenological specifics.

CONCLUSION

Delusional ideas of the end of the world in schizophrenic patients develop in the structure of the syndrome of acute sensory delusions with a predominance of delusions of perception (type I) or visual-figurative delusions of the imagination (type II), which have different duration, degree of dominance and depth of psychopathological disorders.

Keywords:

schizophrenia

delusion of religious content

end-world delusion

apocalyptic delusion

eschatological delusion

Authors:

Kopeyko G.I.

Mental Health Research Center

Scopus AuthorID: 6506149368
ResearcherID: M-2029-2013
ORCID: 0000-0002-8580-9890

Orekhova P.V.

Mental Health Research Center

Borisova O.A.

Mental Health Research Center

Gedevani E.V.

Mental Health Research Center

Kaleda V.G.

Mental Health Research Centre

SPIN RSCI: 9035-3290
Scopus AuthorID: 56765570100
ResearcherID: K-5466-2013
ORCID: 0000-0002-1209-1443

Received:

02.02.2021

Accepted:

23.03.2021

Close metadata

References:

Jaspers K. General psychopathology. Transl. Akopian L.O. Praktise. 1997;1-1056. (In Russ.).
Kraepelin E. Psychiatrie: ein Lehrbuch für Ärzte und Studierende. Klinische Psychiatrie. Barth. 1915;380.
Schneider K. Die psychopathischen Persönlichkeiten. 1950;1-125.
Bleuler E. Psychiatry guideline. Independent psychiatry association. 1993;576. (In Russ.).
Larøi F, Van der Linden M, DeFruyt F, van Os J, Aleman A. Associations between delusion proneness and personality structure in non-clinical participants: comparison between young and elderly samples. Psychopathology. 2006;39(5):218-226. https://doi.org/10.1159/000093922
Rudalevičienė P, Stompe T, Narbekovas A, Raskauškiene N, Bunevičius R. Are religious delusions related to religiosity in schizophrenia? Medicina. 2008;44(7):529. https://doi.org/10.3390/medicina44070068
Bartocci G. Recent advances in cultural and transcultural psychiatry. WPA-TPS Newsletter. 2006;21:24-29.
Huguelet P, Mohr S, Betrisey C, Borras L, Gillieron C, Mancini Marie A, Reiben I, Perroud N, Brandt P. A randomized trial of spiritual assessment of outpatients with schizophrenia: patients’ and clinicians’ experience. Psychiatric Services; 2011;62(1):79-86. https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.62.1.pss6201_0079
Peters E, Day S, McKenna J, Orbach G. Delusional ideation in religious and psychotic populations. British Journal of Clinical Psychology; 1999;38(1):83-96. https://doi.org/10.1348/014466599162683
Wilson WP. Religion and psychoses. Handbook of religion and mental health. Academic Press. 1998;161-173.
Kaplan HI, Sadock BJ, Grebb JA. Kaplan and Sadock’s synopsis of pychiatry: Behavioral sciences, clinical psychiatry. Williams & Wilkins Co; 1994;158-226.
Dein S, Littlewood R. Apocalyptic suicide. Mental Health, Religion & Culture. 2000;3(2):109-114. https://doi.org/10.1080/713685605
Kopejko GI, Borisova OA, Gedevani EV. Psychopathology and phenomenology of religious delusion of possession in schizophrenia. Zhurnal Nevrologii i Psihiatrii im. S.S. Korsakova.. 2018;118:4:30-35. (In Russ.). https://doi.org/10.17116/jnevro20181184130-35
Logutenko RM. Religious experience and delusion with religious content in schizophrenia. Medical Science and Education of Ural. 2011;12(3-1):77-80.
Siddle R, Haddock G, Tarrier N, Faragher EB. Religious delusions in patients admitted to hospital with schizophrenia. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology. 2002;37(3):130-138. https://doi.org/10.1007/s001270200005
Pashkovskij VJe. The clinical meaning of religious-archaic delusions. Social and Clinical Psychiatry. 2012;22(2):43-48. (In Russ.).
Kaleda VG, Popovich UO, Romanenko NV, Kopejko GI. Endogenous episodes of juvenile psychosis with religious delusions. Zhurnal Nevrologii i Psihiatrii im. S.S. Korsakova. 2017;117(12):13-20. (In Russ.). https://doi.org/10.17116/jnevro201711712113-20
Kopejko GI, Borisova OA, Gedevani EV. The first Moscow Congress on Religion and Psychiatry. Clinical and psychopathological features of syndrome of possession in schizophrenia. Psychiatry. 2017;74:84-87. (In Russ.).
Kopejko GI, Borisova OA, Gedevani EV, Samsonov IS. The syndrome of possession with religious content in schizophrenia: clinical and psychopathological features. Psychiatry. 2019;17(3):24-29. (In Russ.). https://doi.org/10.30629/2618-6667-2019-17-3-24-29
Zislin IM, Kuperman VB, Egorov AJu. The classification of the delusion issues (an attempt of structural semantic analysis). Social and CLINICAL PSYCHIATRY. 2003;3:97-105. (In Russ.).
Jumatova PE. Prognostic value of the diagnostic parameters of endogenous diseases with delusional depressions. Psychiatry. 2019;81:20-29. (In Russ.). https://doi.org/10.30629/2618-6667-2019-81-20-29
Alekseeva AG. Psychopathology and clinic of oneirocatatoic states in cases of endogenous diseases. Vestnik Russian Academy of Sciences. 2011(4):48-51. (In Russ.).
Campbell JD, Yoon DP, Johnstone B. Determining relationships between physical health and spiritual experience, religious practices, and congregational support in a heterogeneous medical sample. Journal of Religion and Health. 2010;49(1):3-17. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10943-008-9227-5
Hutter A. De eschatologische waanstemming en het beleven van den ondergang der wereld (een belangrijk verschijnsel voor de diagnose schizophrenie), Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd. 1932;76:392-741.
Kӧrtner UHJ. The end of the world: A theological interpretation. Translated by D. Stott. Louisville. Westminster John Knox Press; 1995;367.
Borisova OA, Orekhova PV. End-world delusion with religious content. Pilot study. Mental health and religious mystical experience. Materials of the international conference: collection of scientific papers. SPb. 2020;34-38. (In Russ.).
Panteleeva GP. Clinical and diagnostics assessment of the acute delusional syndromes in schizophrenia. Zhurnal Nevrologii i Psihiatrii im. S.S. Korsakova. 1989;1:63-67. (In Russ.).
Papadopulos TF. Acute endogenous psychoses. Psychopathology of the recurrent (periodical) schizophrenia. M.: Meditsina; 1975. (In Russ.).