书目名称 | Schizophrenia Is a Misdiagnosis | 副标题 | Implications for the | 编辑 | C. Raymond Lake | 视频video | | 概述 | A book with a controversial hypothesis that states schizophrenia is a mood disorder based on extensive research.Distinguished researcher that presents new methods to treat patients labeled with schizo | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | Schizophrenia is the most widely known and feared mental illness worldwide, yet a rapidly growing literature from a broad spectrum of basic and clinical disciplines, especially epidemiology and molecular genetics, suggests that schizophrenia is the same condition as a psychotic bipolar disorder and does not exist as a separate disease. The goal is to document and interpret these data to justify eliminating the diagnosis of schizophrenia from the nomenclature. The author reviews the changing diagnostic concepts of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder with a historical perspective to clarify how the current conflict over explanations for psychosis has arisen. That two disorders, schizophrenia and bipolar, known as the Kraepelinian dichotomy, account for the functional psychoses has been a cornerstone of Psychiatry for over 100 years, but is questioned because of substantial similarities and overlap between these two disorders. Literature in the field demonstrates that psychotic patients are frequently misdiagnosed as suffering from the disease called schizophrenia when they suffer from a psychotic mood disorder. Such patients, their families, and their caretakers suffer significant dis | 出版日期 | Book 2012 | 关键词 | Kraepelin; Kraepelinean Dichotomy; biopolar disorder; mood disorder; schizphrenia | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1870-2 | isbn_softcover | 978-1-4939-0076-3 | isbn_ebook | 978-1-4614-1870-2 | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Science+Busines |
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