title: [Status of diagnosis and classification in the 1980's. France and the French-speaking tradition].
abstract: The author describes historical origins of some particularities of the traditional French nosology, distinguishing it from other nosologies, in particular from ICD-9. In comparison to this classification, French nosology limits the scope of schizophrenia, increases the scope of delusional states in a different way in the frame of "chronic delusions" or "chronic delusional states" and introduces a specific diagnostic class, the "bouffée délirante" (which does not strictly corresponds to the category in ICD-9).
mesh_terms: D003702:Delusions / Q000175:diagnosis; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005602:France; D005858:Germany; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000145:classification* / Q000175:diagnosis; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000266:history / Q000639:trends*; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000175:diagnosis; D013577:Syndrome
vernacular_title: Situation du diagnostic et de la classification dans les années 1980. La France et la tradition francophone.