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Negative Symptoms: Relationship to Other Schizophrenic Symptom Classes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 August 2018

P.J. McKenna ,
C.E. Lund  and
Ann M. Mortimer
P.J. McKenna
Affiliation:
University of Leeds
C.E. Lund
Affiliation:
University of Leeds
Ann M. Mortimer
Affiliation:
University of Leeds
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If negative symptoms represent a distinct class of schizophrenic symptoms, they should, to paraphrase Bleuler (1911), be more closely related to each other than they are to other schizophrenic symptoms. The first part of this statement, that negative symptoms are intrinsically related to each other, has received considerable experimental support (Andreasen, this volume; Mortimer et al, this volume). The second, that negative symptoms are unrelated to other schizophrenic symptoms, has been somewhat more unevenly investigated.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 155 , Issue S7: Negative Symptoms in Schizophrenia , November 1989 , pp. 104 - 107
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1989 

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