Article
[The schizotypal personality disorder: historical origins and current status].
L'Encephale - 1 Jan 2008
Laguerre A, Leboyer M, Schürhoff F
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The schizotypal personality disorder is a recent psychiatric nosological concept developed by Spitzer at the end of the 1970s, based on the analysis of the characteristics of relatives of schizophrenic subjects included in the adoption studies carried out in the same decade by Kety, Wender and Rosenthal. HISTORICAL ASPECTS: However, this entity is based on older observations, at the beginning of the...
Topics
- Bipolar Disorder
- Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Humans
- International Classification of Diseases
- Personality Assessment
- Schizophrenia
- Schizophrenic Psychology
- Schizotypal Personality Disorder
