Titre
Schizotypy : do not worry, it is not all worrisome
Type
article
Institution
UNIL/CHUV/Unisanté + institutions partenaires
Auteur(s)
Mohr, C.
Auteure/Auteur
Claridge, G.
Auteure/Auteur
Liens vers les personnes
ISSN
0586-7614
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
2015
Volume
41
Numéro
suppl. 2
Première page
S436
Dernière page/numéro d’article
S443
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Langue
anglais
Résumé
A long-standing tradition in personality research in psychology, and nowadays increasingly in psychiatry, is that psychotic and psychotic-like thoughts are considered common experiences in the general population. Given their widespread occurrence, such experiences cannot merely reflect pathological functioning. Moreover, reflecting the multi-dimensionality of schizotypy, some dimensions might be informative for healthy functioning while others less so. Here, we explored these possibilities by reviewing research that links schizotypy to favourable functioning such as subjective wellbeing, cognitive functioning (major focus on creativity) and personality correlates. This research highlights the existence of healthy people with psychotic-like traits who mainly experience positive schizotypy (but also affective features mapping onto bipolar disorder). These individuals seem to benefit from a healthy way to organise their thoughts and experiences, i.e. they employ an adaptive cognitive framework to explain and integrate their unusual experiences. We conclude that, instead of focussing only on the pathological, future studies should explore the behavioural, genetic, imaging and psychopharmacological correlates that define the healthy expression of psychotic-like traits. Such studies would inform on protective or compensatory mechanisms of psychosis-risk and could usefully inform us on the evolutionary advantages of the psychosis dimension.
PID Serval
serval:BIB_51FE06B27509
Open Access
Oui
Date de création
2014-11-23T15:11:00.298Z
Date de création dans IRIS
2025-05-20T18:53:03Z
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PID Serval
serval:BIB_51FE06B27509.P001
URN
urn:nbn:ch:serval-BIB_51FE06B275092
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