[Mutism as permanent catatonic condition].
The history of a case of mutism, where the patient had been silent for more than twenty-five years, caused by the author to study and discuss this relatively infrequent catatonic symptom which is a type of schizophrenia, with frequent references being made to the results of psychiatric studies made by authors ranging from Kahlbaum to Leonhard. Permanent mutism as a possible phenomenal form was logically classified, by Leonhard, as a type of mannered catatonia.
D000368:Aged; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009155:Mutism / Q000209:etiology*; D012560:Schizophrenia, Catatonic / Q000150:complications*; D013997:Time Factors
Der Mutismus als katatone Dauerhaltung