The Pre-Psychotic Personality.

This article looks into the various aspects and conditions of a pre-psychotic personality. In the investigation of a pre-psychotic personality, investigators are hounded with several problems such as: (1) demarcation of the field; (2) limitation of the disorder to a prodromal period of a psychosis which may synonymous to psychoneurosis; (3) the so-called 'border-line' group; and (4) consideration of the disorder as equivalent to potentially psychotic but makes the term partially inclusive. In the administration of the research, several methods were applied such as: (1) clinical or case study methods; (2) questionnaire methods; (3) Rohrschach methods; and (4) psychoanalytic approach. Furthermore, people with such kind of disorder are classified as normals, neurotics, manic depressives, and schizophrenics. Furthermore, studies of the pre-psychotic personality have been handicapped by lack of objectivity and the absence of a sufficiently prolonged period of study. Finally, it is important to have a mental hygiene program that is focused more efficiently and effectively on the sources of mental illness.