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Are latent thought disorders the core of negative schizophrenia?

Winfried Barnett Christoph Mundt

pp. 240-257

Abstract

Since its inception as a diagnostic entity, attempts have been made to divide schizophrenia into homogeneous subgroups. Kraepelin (1899) already distinguished more florid symptoms from those that were marked by losses or deficits; the latter were responsible for the term "dementia praecox". Bleuler (1911) is well known and influential in Anglo-American psychiatry and is often viewed as a forefather of the distinction between positive and negative schizophrenia. For example, Pfohl and Andreasen (1986), Crow (1982), and Sommers (1985) see present-day negative symptoms as a reduced version of Bleuler's fundamental or basic symptoms (disturbances of association and affect, ambivalence, and autism).

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Spitzer Manfred, Schwartz Michael Alan, Schwartz Michael A. (1992) Phenomenology, language & schizophrenia. Dordrecht, Springer.

Pages: 240-257

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4613-9329-0_15

Full citation:

Barnett Winfried, Mundt Christoph (1992) „Are latent thought disorders the core of negative schizophrenia?“, In: M. Spitzer, M.A. Schwartz & M. A. Schwartz (eds.), Phenomenology, language & schizophrenia, Dordrecht, Springer, 240–257.