[Chronic delusional psychosis].
The current Anglo-Saxon trend is to consider that schizophrenia includes all psychoses. However, far from being a uniform set, there is a lot of different clinical presentations of patients with psychosis. Chronic delusional psychosis, as a paradigm, show that subtyping psychosis on a clinical basis is useful for therapeutic and prognosis purposes.
Desseilles
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Service de Psychiatrie et de Psychologie Médicale, CHU de Liège, Belgique. M.Desseilles@ulg.ac.be
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D002908:Chronic Disease; D003702:Delusions / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D012563:Schizophrenia, Paranoid / Q000523:psychology