Classification of Endogenous Psychoses and their Differentiated Etiology / Edition 2

by Karl Leonhard, Helmut Beckmann, C.H. Cahn

Overview

Karl Leonhard's Classification of Endogenous Psychoses is based on sop histicated clinical descriptions and characteristical symptom patters occurring during the long-term course of psychiatric diseases. A diagn osis can be made only if all the clinical features fit, i.e. a special diagnosis may not be made if one characteristic symptom is lacking. T his is the main and important difference between Leonhard's classifica tion and the operational diagnostic systems that require the presence of some but not all specific symptoms of a symptom cluster. Leonhard t ook over the essential features since the early days of Psychiatry and found, always based on own live-long case studies, that the endogenou s psychoses have to be divided into five main nosological different gr oups: on the one side the prognostically favourable unipolar affective psychoses, bipolar affective psychoses and cycloid psychoses and on t he other side the prognostically unfavourable unsystematic and systema tic schizophrenias.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783211832592
Publisher:	Springer Vienna
Publication date:	09/10/1999
Series:	Springer Medicine
Edition description:	2nd rev. a. enlarged ed. 1999
Pages:	402
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.04(d)

Table of Contents

Clinical Pictures of Phasic Psychoses (without Cycloid Psychoses).- Manic-Depressive Illness.- Pure Melancholia and Pure Mania.- Pure Depressions and Pure Euphorias.- The Cycloid Psychosis.- Anxiety-Happiness Psychosis.- Excited-Inhibited Confusion Psychosis.- Hyperkinctic-Akinctic Motility Psychosis.- The Unsystematic Schizophrenias.- Affective Paraphrenia.- Cataphasia (Schizophasia).- Periodic Catatonia.- The Systematic Schizophrenias.- Simple Systematic Schizophrenias.- Combined Systematic Schizophrenias.- Comments.- Age of Onset, Sex Incidence, Course.- Statistical Findings from Investigations before 1968.- Statistical Findings from Investigations after 1968.- The Question of Endogenous Mixed Psychosis.- Etiology of Endogenous Psychoses.- Significance of Hereditary Disposition.- Significance of Psychosocial Circumstances.- Exogenous and Constitutional Causes of the Unsystematic Schizophrenias.- Exogenous and Constitutional Causes of Cycloid Psychoses.- Exogenous and Constitutional Causes of Manic.- Illness.- Exogenous and Constitutional Causes of Pure Phasic Psychoses.- Early Childhood Catatonia.- Delineation of Early Childhood Catatonia.- The Question of Organicity Underlying the Clinical Picture.- Diagnosis of Childhood Schizophrenia.- Distribution of Individual Forms of Early Childhood Catatonia ...- Distinguishing Early Childhood Catatonia from Mental Retardation.- Clinical Pictures of Early Childhood Catatonia.- Etiology of Early Childhood Schizophrenia.- Karl Leonhard’s Life (1904–1988).- References.