Transcultural investigation of recent symptomatology of schizophrenia in China.

During the past 15 years a number of new symptoms, rarely seen in the past, have been observed with increasing frequency among Chinese schizophrenic patients. The authors identify the following symptoms: discordant (dissociative) syndrome, denial of lineage, delusion of leadership lineage, delusion of being married, child-bearing delusion, delusion of being despised, delusion of imminent catastrophe, delusion of influence, inferential delusion, delusion of being experimented on, delusion of conducting an experiment, delusion of being cultivated by superiors, delusion of being tested, delusion of being examined, delusion of impending arrest, delusion of being slandered, mirror symptom, and syndrome of changing dialects.