TY - JOUR
T1 - Diagnostic Discrepancy in Personal Accounts of Patients with ‘Schizophrenia’
AU - North, Carol S
AU - Cadoret, R.
PY - 1981/2
Y1 - 1981/2
N2 - Five published accounts of patients with “schizophrenia” were reviewed in the light of the DSM-III diagnostic criteria. None of the accounts unequivocally met the DSM-III criteria for schizophrenia, but all did meet the criteria for some other psychiatric condition, especially affective disorders. The survey results suggest that popular accounts of “schizophrenia” present a confusing picture of schizophrenia. Inasmuch as these accounts often are invoked to support “cures”, the reading public is doubly misled, as when a naturally remitting condition such as depression is mistakenly called schizophrenia. The psychiatric profession has a responsibility to clarify diagnostic misconceptions put forth in popular literature, and DSM-III might provide more objective guidelines for this much-needed clarification.
AB - Five published accounts of patients with “schizophrenia” were reviewed in the light of the DSM-III diagnostic criteria. None of the accounts unequivocally met the DSM-III criteria for schizophrenia, but all did meet the criteria for some other psychiatric condition, especially affective disorders. The survey results suggest that popular accounts of “schizophrenia” present a confusing picture of schizophrenia. Inasmuch as these accounts often are invoked to support “cures”, the reading public is doubly misled, as when a naturally remitting condition such as depression is mistakenly called schizophrenia. The psychiatric profession has a responsibility to clarify diagnostic misconceptions put forth in popular literature, and DSM-III might provide more objective guidelines for this much-needed clarification.
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U2 - 10.1001/archpsyc.1981.01780270019001
DO - 10.1001/archpsyc.1981.01780270019001
M3 - Article
C2 - 7194022
AN - SCOPUS:0019523741
SN - 0003-990X
VL - 38
SP - 133
EP - 137
JO - Archives of General Psychiatry
JF - Archives of General Psychiatry
IS - 2
ER -