[Deformation and mutability of family and society picture in paranoid schizophrenia].

The aim of the study was to show how the frequency of special subjects of delusions and hallucinations changes in time. A group of 400 in-patients with the diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia divided into four equal groups from the years 1932, 1952, 1972 and 1992 was examined. Data were obtained from case histories from the archives of Neuropsychiatric Hospital in Lubliniec. Results of this study allowed for establishing the following conclusions: the character of paranoid picture of a family and a society is hostile, this feature is expressed mainly in the time after the Second Word War; delusions of jealousy are more frequent in women and they are more variable than in men--they prevail in the postwar period.