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Psychologists often group individuals who stalk into two categories: psychotic and nonpsychotic.

By the time I finished and stepped out shivering, I felt almost completely nonpsychotic.

But whatever its outcome, the trial will say nothing about the newer antipsychotics' effects in nonpsychotic disorders, for which they are increasingly being prescribed.

It may also be used cautiously to treat nonpsychotic irritability, aggression, and insomnia in pediatric patients.

His thought, quickly guarded: nonpsychotic?

Most experts say the risk factors for a nonpsychotic postpartum depression are social, while psychosis is more likely to involve a genetic predisposition to mental illness.

The term is not widely used in the psychiatric and medical fields, as it is considered ambiguous; the term nonpsychotic hallucination is preferred.

Hallucinations in Nonpsychotic Disorders: Toward a Differential Diagnosis of "Hearing Voices."

The nonpsychotic stalkers' pursuit of victims can be influenced by various psychological factors, including anger, hostility, projection of blame, obsession, dependency, minimization, denial, and jealousy.

Dr. Miles, 45 at the time, realized that he was ill and sought help from a psychiatrist, who diagnosed a nonpsychotic form of manic depression and prescribed medication.

He provided "nonpsychotic reasons" for killing his grandparents, setting fire to the house, taking money from his grandparents and then stealing their car, Dr. Crawford's report states.

At the 1956 annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association Heath announced that they "had induced full symptoms of schizophrenia" in two nonpsychotic prisoner-volunteers from Louisiana State Penitentiary.

"Twenty-five volunteers, all in their fifth decade or beyond, all with mild to moderate, nonpsychotic depression of at least several months' duration participated in a double-blind study of Gerovital vs placebo.

Yet Dr. Moldofsky described three nonpsychotic men who were charged by the police with assaultive behavior that occurred during sleep this way: "They appeared as automatons, unaware of what they were doing and unresponsive to stimuli from their environment.

In 1952, Henri Laborit described chlorpromazine only as inducing indifference towards what was happening around them in nonpsychotic, nonmanic patients, and Jean Delay and Pierre Deniker described it as controlling manic or psychotic agitation.

The DSM-II (1968) continued to use the term "sexual deviations", but no longer ascribed them under personality disorders, but rather them alongside them in a broad category titled "personality disorders and certain other nonpsychotic mental disorders".

The drugs appeared so successful that doctors began prescribing them for other things, not only for other psychotic illnesses, like manic depression, but also for Alzheimer's, personality disorders and nonpsychotic depression, and for conduct disorder and severe aggression in children.

Most stalkers are nonpsychotic and may exhibit disorders or neuroses such as major depression, adjustment disorder, or substance dependence, as well as a variety of Axis II personality disorders (such as antisocial, borderline, dependent, narcissistic, or paranoid).

CO-MED (Combination Medication to Enhance Depression Outcomes): Sponsored by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), this study is aimed at improving remission rates for self-declared outpatients with nonpsychotic depression disorder on a recurring basis.

Interpersonal Psychotherapy of Depression was developed in the New Haven-Boston Collaborative Depression Research Project by Gerald Klerman, MD, Myrna Weissman, PhD, and their colleagues for the treatment of ambulatory depressed, nonpsychotic, nonbipolar patients.

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a first-line option in patients with depression and psychotic features who have not responded to antipsychotic and antidepressant medications,and patients with severe nonpsychotic depression who have not responded to adequate trials of two antidepressants.