期刊
PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINE
卷 51, 期 6, 页码 934-939出版社
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S0033291719002605
关键词
Anxiety; at-risk mental state; clinical high risk; depression; psychosis; transdiagnostic; ultra-high risk
资金
- National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Programme Grant for Applied Research [RP-PG-0616-20003]
Psychiatry's recent exploration into risk and prevention in mental disorders has reshaped the clinical understanding of at-risk mental states, challenging the boundary between childhood and adulthood by adopting a developmental perspective. Despite challenges such as the rarity of transition from risk to full syndrome, there is potential for these mental states to provide valuable insights into the nature of psychopathology and new treatment paradigms when viewed beyond mere diagnostic pointers.
Psychiatry's most recent foray into the area of risk and prevention has been spear-headed by work on at-risk mental states for psychotic disorders. Twenty-five years' research and clinical application have led us to reformulate the clinical evolution of these syndromes, blurred unhelpful conceptual boundaries between childhood and adult life by adopting a developmental view and has changed the shape of many mental health services as part of a global movement to increase quality. But there are problems: fragmentary psychotic experiences are common in young people but transition from risk-state to full syndrome is uncommon away from specialist clinics with rarefied referrals and can, anyway, be subtle; diagnostic over-shadowing by the prospect of schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders may divert clinical attention from the kaleidoscopic and disabling range of probably treatable psychopathology with which people with risk syndromes present. We use a 19th Century lyric poem, The Lady of Shallot, as an allegory for Psychiatry warning us against regarding these mental states only as pointers towards diagnoses that probably will not occur. Viewed from the fresh perspective of common mental disorders they tell us a great deal about the psychopathological crucible of the second and third decades, the nature of diagnosis, and point towards new treatment paradigms.
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