title: Brief reactive psychosis.
abstract: A careful reevaluation of 24 patients diagnosed as suffering brief reactive psychosis failed to validate this diagnosis according to DSM-III criteria. Fourteen of the patients had other psychiatric disorders that could explain their symptoms, and 8 had psychosis lasting longer than 2 weeks; the precipitating events were unclear or had uncertain relationships to the psychoses. The criteria proposed for the DSM-III-R do not facilitate the diagnosis of brief reactive psychosis but perhaps make it even more confusing.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D008297:Male; D008370:Manuals as Topic / Q000592:standards; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000150:complications / Q000523:psychology; D008875:Middle Aged; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology