Significance of Delusions for Diagnosis of Schizophrenia:
Delusions rank the second in USA, eighth in Great Britain and tenth in Egypt.
Paranoid delusions rank second in USA sixth Great Britain and download Egypt.
In Egypt hierarchy, thought withdrawal was fourth rank, passivity feeling was sixth
rank, near that in Great Britain but widely apart in USA.
Thought-withdrawal ranked fourteenth, and passivity feelings ranked twenty-ninth
in USA.
Delusions in USA were highly significant for diagnosis of schizophrenia where they
ranked second.
In Egypt, Egyptian Manual stated that delusions are not necessarily present in
schizophrenia and also stated that delusions and hallucinations alone are not sufficient
to diagnose paranoid schizophrenia