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P. Greenacre (1918)
THE CONTENT OF THE SCHIZOPHRENIC CHARACTERISTICS OCCURRING IN AFFECTIVE DISORDERSAmerican Journal of Psychiatry, 75
K. Menninger (1928)
THE SCHIZOPHRENIC SYNDROME AS A PRODUCT OF ACUTE INFECTIOUS DISEASEJournal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 20
C. Campbell (1926)
TWO CASES ILLUSTRATING THE COMBINATION OF AFFECTIVE AND SCHIZOPHRENIC SYMPTOMSAmerican Journal of Psychiatry, 83
Since patients suffering from dementia praecox form the great bulk of the permanent population of asylums, the prognosis in this disease is generally considered to be very unfavorable. Therefore, to many people "dementia praecox" is a prejudicial term and once an individual is stamped with it he is given up as being hopelessly insane. It is my purpose in this paper to show that there are many cases which in former days would have been called dementia praecox and considered hopeless that are now amenable to treatment. Of course, cases of dementia praecox with characteristic delusions, hallucinations and personality splittings ending in a permanent terminal dementia still exist, but the psychoses under discussion here usually terminate in recovery, although at the outset they may resemble orthodox dementia praecox in all their details. Adolf Meyer1 recognized the difference between cases of dementia praecox which terminated in a permanent dementia and
JAMA – American Medical Association
Published: Apr 26, 1930
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