Journal article
The significance of thought disorder in diagnostic evaluations
Comprehensive psychiatry, Vol.15(1), pp.27-34
1974
DOI: 10.1016/0010-440X(74)90061-3
PMID: 4809355
Abstract
A group of 42 clinicians examined proverb interpretations and samples of writing from two schizophrenics, two manics, and two creative writers without any information about symptoms or past history. They diagnosed thought disorder more frequently in the writers and manics than in the schizophrenics and noted in them more traits commonly thought characteristic of thought disorder. Suspected diagnoses were never the same as the actual clinical diagnoses, and they were unable to distinguish the psychotic from the nonpsychotic individuals. These data suggest that current thinking about the nature and significance of thought disorder should be reexamined and reevaluated.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The significance of thought disorder in diagnostic evaluations
- Creators
- N.J.C AndreasenMing T TsuangArthur Canter
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Comprehensive psychiatry, Vol.15(1), pp.27-34
- DOI
- 10.1016/0010-440X(74)90061-3
- PMID
- 4809355
- NLM abbreviation
- Compr Psychiatry
- ISSN
- 0010-440X
- eISSN
- 1532-8384
- Publisher
- Elsevier Inc
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 1974
- Academic Unit
- Psychiatry; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
- Record Identifier
- 9984003902802771
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