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Cooper, J. E. (John Edward) and Singh, Swaran P. (2001) Acute and transient psychoses. In: Henn, Fritz A. and Sartorius, Norman and Helmchen, H. (Hanfried) and Lauter, H. (Hans), (eds.) Contemporary Psychiatry. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 1783-1793. ISBN 9783642640070
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-59519-6_114
Abstract
The traditional binary division of functional psychosis into schizophrenia and manic-depressive psychosis does not account satisfactorily for acute psychotic disorders which have an abrupt onset, short duration, no association with organic states and good outcome. Such disorders are now recognised in both the ICD-10 and the DSM-IV as being separate from the schizophrenic syndromes and the affective psychoses (see the Appendix). This indicates a widespread international agreement that these conditions have a reasonable degree of identity as descriptive clinical states, but in both the classifications this recognition is only as “disorders”, i.e. as sets of symptoms and behaviour that are “clinically recognisable” (ICD-10) or “clinically significant” (DSM-IV). There is not yet sufficient knowledge about their aetiology, their genetics or the mechanisms and processes that underlie their symptoms to move them any significant distance along the sliding scale that leads from the modest status of clinical disorder to recognition as a disease entity.
| Item Type: | Book Item |
|---|---|
| Subjects: | R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences > Mental Health and Wellbeing Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School |
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Psychoses |
| Publisher: | Springer |
| Place of Publication: | Berlin Heidelberg |
| ISBN: | 9783642640070 |
| Book Title: | Contemporary Psychiatry |
| Editor: | Henn, Fritz A. and Sartorius, Norman and Helmchen, H. (Hanfried) and Lauter, H. (Hans) |
| Official Date: | 2001 |
| Page Range: | pp. 1783-1793 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-642-59519-6_114 |
| Status: | Peer Reviewed |
| Publication Status: | Published |
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