Schizophrenic Patients and Organic World: An Analysis of Patients' Psychological Perception and Social Cognition

The study was conducted to know how psychological illness effect human perception and cognition. Schizophrenia is a psychological disorder having devastating effect on the perception and cognitive abilities of an individual. The objective of the study was ‘Perception of Schizophrenic patients detaches them from social environment.’ Paranoid schizophrenia is the type of schizophrenia in which hallucinations and delusions detach a person from the real world. Delusion of persecution and delusion of grandiosity are the two most prominent and severe types of this disorder. Visual and auditory hallucinations are the common types and person suffering from any type of schizophrenia have symptoms of these two hallucinations. Prognosis is better in paranoid schizophrenia as compare to its other forms.