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Attention is called to a group of patients who show a clinical symptomatology which is considered by many psychiatrists to be psychoneurotic. These patients do not deteriorate and have no delusions or hallucinations. Nevertheless, they show clinical symptomatology which is very similar to that seen in schizophrenic patients. It can be demonstrated in follow-up studies that a considerable number of these patients have short psychotic episodes or later become frankly schizophrenic. A few of these “borderline” cases are described and their symptomatology analyzed. It is suggested these patients be classified “pseudoneurotic form of schizophrenia.”
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From the departments of research and clinical psychiatry, New York State Psychiatric Institute.
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Hoch, P., Polatin, P. Pseudoneurotic forms of schizophrenia. Psych Quar 23, 248–276 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01563119
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01563119