Disintegration of the components of language as the path to a revision of Bleuler's and Schneider's concepts of schizophrenia
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- 1 March 2003
- journal article
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 182 (3) , 233-240
Abstract
Background The 20th century ended without a resolution of the debate about the supremacy of Schneider's psychopathological conceptualisation of schizophrenia (the first-rank symptoms) over Bleuler's ‘four As’ (disorders of association and affect, ambivalence and autism).Keywords
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