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This chapter describes the common features of the psychological organization of psychotic phenomena. Although the psychoses are a variety of illnesses that have different mental organizations, they have two common structural aspects: a loss of reality testing and a condensation of reality with fantasy. This condensation takes place in a particular way and is in a particular relationship to the rest of mental experience. This is why we can describe a category of mental experience called psychotic structure.
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Marcus, E.R. (1992). Psychotic Structure. In: Psychosis and Near Psychosis. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-9197-5_2
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