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Depression in Functional Psychosis

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Despite a recent reappraisal of the concept of Unitary Psychosis (1), the Kraepelinian dichotomy of functional psychotic illnesses remains the theoretical and clinical orientation of most psychiatrists. The validity of this in defining separate disease entities is, of course, crucially based on outcome. Thus in establishing a diagnosis, Kraepelin urged consideration of...

“the entire picture... especially... the changes which it undergoes in the course of the disease” (2).

Such longitudinal methodology has, however, largely been abandoned in favour of the cross-sectional evaluation of symptomatology. Schneider, for example, stated that:

“Psychiatric diagnosis must be based on the presenting situation, not on the course taken by the illness” (3).

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Owens, D.G.C., Johnstone, E.C. (1989). Depression in Functional Psychosis. In: Williams, R., Dalby, J.T. (eds) Depression in Schizophrenics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9978-1_6

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