Timespan
The condition usually resolves spontaneously within a timespan of weeks to months: typically, 'the severity of the symptoms diminishes during this time in a continuous manner'.
A primary goal of treatment is to prevent patients from harming themselves or others during the episode. Jungians also stress the importance of recognising the patient's perspective throughout, the danger being that
'if psychiatry itself considers the situation incomprehensible...many exclusion mechanisms will be set to work and he will slide down the slope of a deeper and deeper regression'.
Read more about this topic: Brief Reactive Psychosis