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Langfeldt's Schizophreniform Psychoses Fifty Years Later

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

A. L. Mina Bergem ,
Alv A. Dahl ,
Cato Guldberg  and
Helge Hansen
A. L. Mina Bergem
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of Oslo, PO Box 85, Vindern, 0319 Oslo 3, Norway
Alv A. Dahl
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of Oslo
Cato Guldberg
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of Oslo
Helge Hansen
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of Oslo
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As a result of follow-up studies published in 1937 and 1939, Langfeldt divided schizophrenia into two groups; ‘typical schizophrenia’ which had a poor outcome, and the ‘schizophreniform psychoses' which had a less typical clinical picture of schizophrenia and a good outcome. Langfeldt's cases of schizophreniform psychoses were reclassified according to the ICD–9 and DSM–III–R diagnostic systems. Most of the schizophreniform psychoses did not appear ‘schizophrenia-like’ at all, but turned out to be mainly affective disorders. Those included in Langfeldt's diagnosis of ‘schizophreniform psychoses' were found to be too heterogenous to validate the existence of this syndrome.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 157 , Issue 3 , September 1990 , pp. 351 - 354
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1990 

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