The functional psychoses, medical diseases with no known biological causes (for example, schizophrenia and anxiety disorders), continue to be classed as illnesses of unknown origin, and the validity of diagnostic concepts therefore also depends on extrinsic criteria such as course and outcome, results of biological and genetic investigation, and response to treatment. Operational diagnostic criteria, or the process of defining a psychosis by studying its manifestations, are the main subject of this book, which presents a comprehensive review of the present state of diagnostic formulations for...

The functional psychoses, medical diseases with no known biological causes (for example, schizophrenia and anxiety disorders), continue to be classed as illnesses of unknown origin, and the validity of diagnostic concepts therefore also depends on extrinsic criteria such as course and outcome, results of biological and genetic investigation, and response to treatment. Operational diagnostic criteria, or the process of defining a psychosis by studying its manifestations, are the main subject of this book, which presents a comprehensive review of the present state of diagnostic formulations for...

The purpose of the World Psychiatric Association is to coordinate the activities of its Member Societies on a world-wide scale and to advance enquiry into the etiology, pathology, and treatment of mental illness. To further this purpose, the Association organizes mono- or multi thematic Regional Symposia in different parts of the world twice a year, and World Congresses dealing with all individual fields of psychiatry once every five or six years. Between these meetings the continuation of the Association's scientific work is assured through the activities of its specialty sections, each...

Seine Einleitung zur ersten Auflage dieses klinischen Bandes beschloss MAYER GROSS 1959 mit dem Hinweis auf die Polarisierung der Psychiatrie zwischen dem "synthetischen Denken der Klinik" und den "Einseitigkeiten der Uberspeziali sierung." Dieser Spannung fuhlten sich die Herausgeber der vorliegenden zweiten Auflage womoglich noch starker ausgesetzt, als sie ein Jahrzehnt spater die Gliede rung der jetzt erscheinenden heiden klinischen Bande planten. Sie suchten eine Losung, indem sie das schnell anwachsende klinische Erfahrungsfeld starker differenzierten. Der Schwerpunkt dieser...