Perez L
Ment Health Soc. 1978;5(5-6):266-74.
The messianic delusional syndrome repeats an historical prototype that manifests itself in each patient with individual changes. The syndrome expresses a serious impairment of identity and reflects a social, cultural and religious reality through generations. The regularities of its clinical features comprise a delusional system, centered on the patient's conviction that he has been chosen by God for a special and intransferable mission. The patient has special powers for carrying out this mission. He is a savior and announces resurrection. His delusions have a clear symbolic character. For the patient's social group, the messianic idea is an attempt at annulling the effect of oppression or persecution that have become unbearable for the individual. They represent a flight from the human sphere and an attempt to be God. The patient's behavior is in consonance with this purpose; it expresses itself, on the one hand, through preaching repentance and compassion and, on the other hand, the patient gives up his earthly links and replaces them by parental relations with God. In the above-mentioned context, the author analyzes the different elements of the religious conception in the Christian, Moslem and Jewish religions, and the way each of them expresses itself in the general symptomatology.
弥赛亚妄想综合征重复着一种历史原型，在每个患者身上都会有个体变化地显现出来。该综合征表现出严重的身份认同障碍，并代代反映出一种社会、文化和宗教现实。其临床特征规律包括一个妄想系统，该系统以患者坚信自己被上帝选中承担一项特殊且不可转让的使命为核心。患者拥有执行此使命的特殊能力。他是救世主并宣告复活。他的妄想具有明显的象征性质。对于患者的社会群体而言，弥赛亚观念是试图消除个体已无法承受的压迫或迫害影响。它们代表着逃离人类领域并试图成为上帝。患者的行为与此目的相符；一方面通过宣扬忏悔和慈悲来表达，另一方面患者放弃其尘世联系，代之以与上帝的亲子关系。在上述背景下，作者分析了基督教、伊斯兰教和犹太教中宗教观念的不同元素，以及它们各自在一般症状学中的表现方式。
