Comment on Lara Rzesnitzek (2013) “Early Psychosis” as a mirror of biologist controversies in post-war German, Anglo-Saxon, and Soviet Psychiatry

Frontiers in Psychology

Hanfried Helmchen¹ 

关键词: rzesnitzek;    early psychosis;    anglo-saxon;    soviet;    commentary;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00830

学科分类：心理学（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

A mental illness with severe disturbances of subjective experiences and behavior with a progressive course, due to the onset of cognitive deterioration during the second and third decade of life, was described more than a century ago as dementia praecox (Kraepelin, 1896). In 1911 the diversity of existing marked symptoms led to the suggestion of a group of mental disorders, summarized as “Dementia praecox or group of schizophrenias” (Bleuler, 1911). Under the term schizophrenia various core symptoms of the diagnosis and/or of the disorder were defined, among others mainly: basic and secondary symptoms (Bleuler, 1911), first and second rank symptoms (Schneider, 1950), positive and negative symptoms (Andreasen, 1982). Sometimes the significance of the affective and intentional symptoms prevailed, at other times the cognitive disturbances were seen as the central phenomena, thus, e.g., in reframing schizophrenia as a “cognitive illness” (Kahn and Keefe, 2013).

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