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Schizophrenia: An Unfinished History is a 2022 non-fiction book by the practicing psychoanalyst and historian of psychiatry Orna Ophir. The book summarizes the history of the conceptualization, diagnosis, and lived experiences of schizophrenia through the lens of competing views of schizophrenia as a natural, biological construct and as a spectrum of disorders, existing on a continuum of behavior.
Psychosis is noted in Other specified schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders as a DSM-5 category. Schizoaffective disorder is diagnosed if symptoms of mood disorder are substantially present alongside psychotic symptoms. Psychosis that results from a general medical condition or substance is termed secondary psychosis. [10]
Schizophreniform disorder is a type of mental illness that is characterized by psychosis and closely related to schizophrenia.Both schizophrenia and schizophreniform disorder, as defined by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV-TR), have the same symptoms and essential features except for two differences: the level of functional impairment and the duration of symptoms.
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The 1973 text book, "The Companion to Psychiatric Studies" asserted that antipsychotics 'a specific therapeutic effect in schizophrenia, and that the term "tranquiliser" is a misnomer' using the term anti-schizophrenic, discussing the dopamine hypothesis and by 1975 adverts asserted that drugs had an antipsychotic action through acting on ...
Michael Hawkins – American actor; diagnosed with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder [43] Luke Helder – The Midwest Pipe Bomber (schizoaffective disorder) [44] David Helfgott – Australian concert pianist (schizoaffective disorder) [45] John Hinckley Jr. – American failed assassin of Ronald Reagan [46] Sigrid Hjertén – Swedish painter [47]
Kurt Schneider (7 January 1887 – 27 October 1967) was a German psychiatrist known largely for his writing on the diagnosis and understanding of schizophrenia, as well as personality disorders then known as psychopathic personalities.
Cognitive symptoms of schizophrenia involve disturbances in executive functions, working memory impairment, and inability to sustain attention. [1] Given the high numbers of individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia (nearly 1% of modern-day populations), it is unlikely that the disorder has arisen solely from random mutations. [2]