The Identification of Disease Entities and the Relationship between Schizophrenic and Affective Psychoses | The British Journal of Psychiatry | Cambridge Core (original) (raw)

Summary

A method is described for identifying a genuine boundary between related syndromes, if one exists, by demonstrating a non-linear relationship between symptomatology and outcome. The technique was applied to the putative boundary between schizophrenic and affective psychoses, but a non-linear relationship could not be demonstrated.

Type

Research Article

Copyright

Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1980

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