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The diagnosis and classification of mental disorders in French-speaking countries: background, current views and comparison with other nomenclatures1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

P. Pichot
P. Pichot*
Affiliation:
Centre Hospitalier Sainte-Anne, Paris, France
*
2Address for correspondence: Professor P. Pichot, Centre Hospitalier Sainte-Anne, 100 rue de la Santé, 75674 Paris Cedex 14, France.
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Synopsis

A detailed account is given of the historical background and current status of the concepts of transitory delusional state (bouffée délirante) and chronic delusional state in French psychiatry. Their relations with other nosological systems are discussed.

Type
Research Article
Information
Psychological Medicine , Volume 12 , Issue 3 , August 1982 , pp. 475 - 492
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1982

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Footnotes

1

This is an abridged version of a contribution to Sources and Traditions in Contemporary Psychiatry (ed. A. Jablensky, N. Sartorius, R. Hirschfeld and H. Pardes). WHO: Geneva (in the press).

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