Diagnosis of functional psychoses

C. Scharfetter; H. Moerbt; J. K. Wing

doi:10.1007/bf00369795

Diagnostic Criteria for Functional Psychoses

10.1017/cbo9780511663208 ◽

1992 ◽

Cited By ~ 14

Author(s):

P. Berner ◽

E. Gabriel ◽

H. Katschnig ◽

W. Kieffer ◽

K. Koehler ◽

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Keyword(s):

Diagnostic Criteria ◽

Functional Psychoses

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Review of Diagnostic Criteria for Functional Psychoses (2nd ed.).

Contemporary Psychology ◽

10.1037/032814 ◽

1993 ◽

Vol 38 (11) ◽

pp. 1234-1234

Author(s):

Timothy J. Trull

Keyword(s):

Diagnostic Criteria ◽

Functional Psychoses

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Method of detection of schizophrenic row disorders at early stages in patients from groups with "functional psychoses" basing on EEG scaling indicators

Klinical Informatics and Telemedicine ◽

10.31071/kit2018.14.05 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 13 (14) ◽

pp. 37-46 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

O. Yu. Mayorov ◽

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V. N. Fenchenko ◽

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Keyword(s):

Early Stages ◽

Functional Psychoses

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Modified Frontal Leucotomy: A Review of 106 Cases

The British Journal of Psychiatry ◽

10.1192/bjp.110.465.211 ◽

1964 ◽

Vol 110 (465) ◽

pp. 211-221 ◽

Cited By ~ 20

Author(s):

J. L. T. Birley

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Side Effects ◽

Critical Review ◽

Psychiatric Illness ◽

Empirical Therapy ◽

Psychological Literature ◽

Standard Operation ◽

Functional Psychoses

Frontal leucotomy has been used in the treatment of psychiatric illness for over twenty years. Its popularity has undergone the usual fluctuations of a newly-introduced form of empirical therapy, and at present there are many different opinions about its value (Lancet, 1962; Pippard, 1962). For a critical review of the clinical and psychological literature, see Willett (1960). The standard operation has fallen out of favour, not because it was thought to be ineffective, but because it had undesirable side-effects on the personality. Various “modified” operations have, therefore, been introduced. Using one of these—the “orbital undercutting” technique—Knight (1960) has reported excellent results in 129 cases of long-standing depression. Robin (1958, 1959), however, has reported no difference between the outcome for 198 patients who had a standard leucotomy for functional psychoses, fifty-two of them affective, and an equal number of carefully but retrospectively matched controls.

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Changes in the Prognosis of Functional Psychoses Since the Days of Kraepelin

The British Journal of Psychiatry ◽

10.1192/bjp.113.501.813 ◽

1967 ◽

Vol 113 (501) ◽

pp. 813-822 ◽

Cited By ~ 21

Author(s):

Örnulv Ödegård

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Special Problem ◽

Point Of View ◽

General Point ◽

Course Of Illness ◽

Dynamic Reasoning ◽

Starting Point ◽

Functional Psychoses ◽

External Conditions ◽

Point Of Departure ◽

The Universe

My choice of Kraepelin as a point of departure for this lecture has definite reasons. If one wants to stay within the field of clinical psychiatry (as opposed to psychiatric history), that is as far back as one can reasonably go. By this no slight is intended upon the pre-Kraepelinian psychiatrists. For our topic Henry Maudsley would indeed have been a most appropriate starting point, and by no means for reasons of courtesy. His general point of view is admirably sound as a basis for the scientific study of prognosis in psychiatry. I quote: “There is no accident in madness. Causality, not casualty, governs its appearance in the universe, and it is very far from being a good and sufficient practice simply to mark its phenomena and straightway to pass on as if they belonged not to an order but to a disorder of events that called for no explanation.” On the special problem of prognosis he shows his clinical acumen by stating that the outlook is poor when the course of illness is insidious, but this only means that these cases develop their psychoses on the basis of mental deviations which go very far back in the patient's life, so that in fact they are generally in a chronic stage at the time of their first admission to hospital. Here he actually corrects a mistake which is still quite often made. He shows his dynamic attitude when he says that prognosis is to a large extent modified by external conditions, in particular by the attitude of friends and relatives. Maudsley's dynamic reasoning was limited by the narrow framework of the degeneration hypothesis of those days. He had a sceptical attitude towards classification, which he regarded as artificial and dangerously pseudo-exact. His own classification was deliberately provisional, with very wide groups. He held that a description of various sub-forms of chronic insanity was useless, as it would mean nothing but a tiresome enumeration of unconnected details.

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