Fragile self, mechanical world: mechanistic delusions and ego fragility in schizotypal–affective spectrum disorder—a CARE case report
Frontiers in Psychiatry July 16, 2026 Giovanna Azevedo Rodrigues, Fernando Martins Castanheira, Larissa Leite Vieira de Oliveira et al.
Categorical nosological systems frequently fall short when confronted with patients whose presentations cross established diagnostic boundaries. We report M.S., a 44-year-old Brazilian man involuntarily admitted to a psychiatric inpatient unit who presented with systematized persecutory ideation of mechanistic–technological content (chip implantation, satellite-based surveillance), structural...