title: The current state of process-reactive schizophrenia.
abstract: Current developments in the process-reactive classification of schizophrenia are examined in the light of diagnosis, paranoid-nonparanoid status, premorbid adjustment, demographic factors, and outcome. Recent studies are reviewed as suggestive of a present focus, and theoretical possibilities are explored. Recommendations are made to include a broader, more complex view of the process-reactive conception,  methodological improvements, further theoretical development, and increased research into a variety of promising areas utilizing this framework and facilitating its useful growth as an approach to understanding the totality of schizophrenia.
mesh_terms: D003071:Cognition; D006801:Humans; D008393:Marriage; D011379:Prognosis; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000145:classification* / Q000175:diagnosis; D012563:Schizophrenia, Paranoid / Q000145:classification; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology; D013850:Thinking