Abstract
Through the years, the diagnostic criteria for schizophrenia have undergone many revisions, with the syndrome being classified in myriad ways. A listing of some proposed subtypes of schizophrenia illustrates this diversity: hebephrenic, catatonic, simple, paranoid, chronic undifferentiated, latent, process, reactive, schizoaffective, atypical, affect-laden paraphrenia, cataphasia, schizophasia, good prognosis, poor prognosis, systematic, nonsystematic, and oneirophrenia. At the other extreme, one is also confronted with a group of psychiatrists who deny the very existence of the entity called “schizophrenia” (Szasz, 1974).
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Lesser, I.M. (1982). Unusual Presentations of Schizophrenia. In: Friedmann, C.T.H., Faguet, R.A. (eds) Extraordinary Disorders of Human Behavior. Critical Issues in Psychiatry. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-9251-8_16
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