Historical and conceptual evolution of non-schizophrenic psychotic disorders in DSM

Abstract

After firmly established the “kraepelinean dichotomy” (dementia praecox - manic-depressive insanity), classical psychiatry began to describe a group of psychotic disorders which did not fit in any of these main diagnoses. Many of these clinical pictures where incorporated to the DSM and underwent several changes throughout the successive editions of the American manual. This article aims to make a historical and conceptual overview of this group of non-schizophrenic psychotic disorders accompanying schizophrenia in the “Schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders” chapter of DSM-5.

"Este artículo fue publicado por primera vez en Vertex, Revista Argentina de Psiquiatría 2014, XXV(113): 43-50. Se reproduce aquí su versión original revisada por el autor."