[Familial psychosis and filiation].

Abstract excerpt

Since the last decade of the nineteenth century, psychiatric nosology has been dominated by Kraepelin's binary system: the notion that the distinction between manic-depressive illness and schizophrenia identifies two separate diseases with differing symptom patterns and outcomes. However, Kraepelin recognised that intermediate states, as exemplified by Kasanin's concept of "schizoaffective" illness are common. In...

Topics

• Aged
• Bipolar Disorder
• Diagnosis, Differential
• Female
• Genetic Predisposition to Disease
• Humans
• Male
• Middle Aged
• Mother-Child Relations
• Risk Factors
• Schizophrenia
• Schizophrenic Psychology