Relationship Between Insight, Adherence and Disability in the Diagnose of Paranoid Schizophrenia

Abstract

The concept of insight has evolved over the years from psychodynamic positions, related to defense mechanisms (denial or repression), or as well as to the inability to recognize a morbid process by oneself1 to a multidimensional model of clinical insight in the 90s, which implied the ability of the patients to recognize their own symptoms, their attribution, its impact on their life and the need for treatment2,3.