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Psychosis, Toxicomania and 'The Homeless'

Dirk Bryssinck

Issue 19 — Summer 2000

117–129

The psychiatric landscape has undergone a lot of changes in the last couple of years. This constant evolution shouldn't surprise us, considering its youthful existence and bearing in mind that psychiatry always follows in the wake of an ongoing society. Hysteria is commonly known to adapt itself to the prevailing discourse, but that psychoses should also be appearing in a new attire is a relatively new feature. Since Nietzsche's creed that God is dead one has rarely come across the 'traditional' psychotic delusions, such as the religious delusion of redemption.…

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