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  • Title: [Acute water intoxication as a complication of therapy refractory schizophrenia].
    Author: Frei A, Kolb C.
    Journal: Psychiatr Prax; 1998 Jan; 25(1):47-8. PubMed ID: 9530770.
    Abstract:
    A patient with chronic paranoid schizophrenia with delusions of infestation and of grandeur type, developed polydipsia in the course of his illness which ended up in acute life-threatening water intoxication. Apart from somatic causes like SIADH, which are discussed in literature, water-intoxication could psychodynamically be interpreted in the sense of acting on delusions.
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