[en] The current Anglo-Saxon trend is to consider that schizophrenia includes all psychoses. However, far from being a uniform set, there is a lot of different clinical presentations of patients with psychosis. Chronic delusional psychosis, as a paradigm, show that subtyping psychosis on a clinical basis is useful for therapeutic and prognosis purposes.
Disciplines :
Psychiatry
Author, co-author :
Desseilles, Martin ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences cliniques > Psychiatrie et psychologie médicale
Massart, Nicolas ; Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Liège - CHU > Médecine de l'appareil locomoteur
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