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Commentary on the Contributions of Professor H. Sass, Dr G. Gross and Dr Ch. Mundt et al. on ‘Negative’ and ‘Basic’ Symptoms of Schizophrenia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 August 2018

Sir Martin Roth
Sir Martin Roth*
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Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge
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These three papers by psychiatrists from the German-speaking world all deal mainly with the nature and aetiological basis of the psychological deficits manifest as ‘negative’ symptoms in schizophrenic illness. There is just an echo of the controversies regarding the validity of subdivision of schizophrenia into ‘positive’ and ‘negative’ forms that have received much attention from British and North American psychiatrists in recent years. (Andreasen et al, 1982; Crow, 1985). It appears to be implicitly assumed that schizophrenia is a unity. The acute psychoses which are diagnosed as schizophrenic in most countries but named ‘psychogenic psychoses’ in Scandinavia and ‘bouffée delirante’ in France and ‘emotion psychoses’ in Switzerland (Labhardt, 1963) are not allowed to complicate matters.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 155 , Issue S7: Negative Symptoms in Schizophrenia , November 1989 , pp. 37 - 40
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1989 

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