Violence and psychosis

The idea that psychosis involves violence is widespread and is one of the causes of bias toward the psychotic. This is a controversial even for experts.

The psychiatrist Jeffrey W. Swanson tries to find the circumstances leading to some of these individuals to commit aggressive acts that seem random, inexplicable and unpredictable.

Swanson has been found in their studies that a severe mental illness multiplied by five the risk of violence, and believes that some symptoms can serve as warning signs, for example, ideas paranoid-people who feel persecuted react by attacking the alleged assailant, drug use and a history of aggressive behavior in childhood and adolescence.

Other authors such as J. Monahan disagree with this causal relationship. According to this psychiatrist, the cause of many violent acts of psychotic drugs that are attributed to the disorder and not the substance, but according to their data, there are no differences in risk among people consuming disorder with or without disorder.

In any case, the combination drug-psychosis is a very likely indicator of aggressive behavior.