Schizotypal disorder in ICD-10 is classified in the ‘Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders’ section as this disorder is described as possessing many of the characteristic features of schizophrenia without its obvious…

Both ICD-10 and DSM-IV provide broadly similar classifications of longitudinal course.  The subtypes of schizophrenia included in both ICD-10 and DSM-IV are paranoid, catatonic, undifferentiated and residual schizophrenia.  Hebephrenic schizophrenia is called…

Although attempts have been made to bridge the gap between ICD-10 and DSM-IV and move them closer, significant differences still persist concerning the definition, duration and subtypes of…

ICD-10 and DSM-IV provide the criteria for diagnosing schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders. At best, they can only be considered an ‘arbitrary but well informed consensus on the definition of…

Many of the clinical concepts of schizophrenia summarized so far, selected from a range that could be broadened to include dozens more authors,  have been unsatisfactory in several ways:

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Disease as entity or as deviation from normal functioning

Kendell (1987) has pointed out that none of the four types of psychosis – schizophrenic, affective, good prognosis acute and chronic paranoid – discussed…

Bleuler (1919) regarded autism as one of the fundamental features of schizophrenia. He described it as an active withdrawal from contact with reality in order to live in an inner world of fantasy.…

Many attempts have been made to carry forward, refine or break up the syndromes described by the two conceptual giants. One motive was to improve earlier formulations of the fundamental characteristics that might…

Griesinger
There has been no time since attempts at classification began when controversy about the nature of ‘schizophrenia’  was absent.  However,  there have been periods when a sort of orthodoxy   was  …

Each account of the concept of ‘schizophrenia’ reaches into the past from a viewpoint in a contemporary present. Berrios and Hauser (1988) commented that such accounts were unhistorical because we still lived in a…