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Thought Disorder in the Childhood Psychoses

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Formal thought disorder is one of the primary inclusionary criteria for the diagnosis of schizophrenia in the third edition (DSM-III; 1980) and the revised third edition (DSM-III-R; 1987) of the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual. A DSM-III diagnosis of formal thought disorder is based on the presence of illogical thinking, loose associations, incoherence, and poverty of content of speech. The DSM-III-R, however, limits the formal-thought-disorder criteria to incoherence or marked loosening of associations.

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Caplan, R., Sherman, T. (1990). Thought Disorder in the Childhood Psychoses. In: Lahey, B.B., Kazdin, A.E. (eds) Advances in Clinical Child Psychology. Advances in Clinical Child Psychology, vol 13. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-9835-6_5

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