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Schizoaffective Psychosis: A Challenge to Kraepelin’s Paradigm?

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The existence of schizoaffective psychosis has for many decades been a matter of much discussion and controversy. This diagnostic category has been the focus of two basic psychopathological hypotheses: Kraepelin’s “Zweiteilungsprinzip” (two-disease entity) and Jaspers’ “Schichtenregel” (Jaspers 1973).

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    Hinderk M. Emrich

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Zaudig, M. (1992). Schizoaffective Psychosis: A Challenge to Kraepelin’s Paradigm?. In: Emrich, H.M., Wiegand, M. (eds) Integrative Biological Psychiatry. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-77168-2_17

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