CAS PS 371 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Schizotypal Personality Disorder, Autism Spectrum, Psychosis
25 Sep 2018
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The diagnoses of dementia praecox in 1908 and of icd-9 schizophrenia in 1970s refer to the same clinical syndrome. The diagnostic wrist that eventually separated european and american concepts of schizophrenia originated primarily in the us with the expansion of the boundaries of the disorder under the in uence of psychodynamic theory. This was well documented by the landmark us-uk diagnostic study, which, along with early version of operation diagnostic criteria, prepared the ground for the development of the. The current diagnosis of schizophrenia is very similar to kraeplin"s. There was eventually a drift between america and europe. America was more in line with the bleulerian de nition of schizophrenia, which was very broad. You can have schizophrenia without being psychotic, according to bleuler. Interesting epidemiological nding: in england there was a higher rate of bipolar disorder, and in the us there was a higher rate of schizophrenia. They looked into the criteria for each diagnosis.
