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ROBERT J. NATHAN, MD

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1964;11(2):185-191.

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Open disagreement occurs quite frequently when attempts are made to delineate the essential diagnostic features of schizophrenia. Menninger² in writing about the International Congress on Schizophrenia that was held in 1957 said, ". . . . hundreds of different conditions (are) called Schizophrenia by different doctors. The use of such a word is thus of little importance; my opinion is that it does a great deal of damage." In American psychiatry a combination of the concepts of Freud, Bleyler, and Meyer resulted in the currently accepted nomenclature as found in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual: Mental Disorders, of the American Psychiatric Association.⁴ Here placed under the large category of functional disorders, Schizophrenic Reactions are ". . . . synonomous with the formerly used term dementia praecox. It represents a group of psychotic reactions characterized by fundamental disturbance in reality relationships and concept formations with affective behavioral and intellectual disturbances in varying . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
PHILADELPHIA

Clinical Director, Philadelphia Psychiatric Center.

Footnotes
Read before 119th Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, St. Louis, Mo, May 6-10, 1963.

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