Schizoaffective Disorder: Concept and Reality
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Schizoaffective disorder: concept and reality.
A wide variety of concepts have been proposed to account for schizoaffective psychoses. Presenting a mixture of schizophrenic and affective symptoms, these psychoses have long defied classification in the usual scheme of the two major diagnostic categories, schizophrenia and major affective disorder. Empirical findings are often contradictory, and have sometimes supported the classification of ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Schizophrenia Bulletin
سال: 1984
ISSN: 0586-7614,1745-1701
DOI: 10.1093/schbul/10.1.14