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LANCET PSYCHIATRY
Volume 3, Issue 4, Pages 367-374Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/S2215-0366(15)00577-5
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- Dr Mortimer and Theresa Sackler Foundation
- Medical Research Foundation
- Medical Research Council
- Wellcome Trust
- European Commission
- Medical Research Council [MR/L010305/1, G0800509] Funding Source: researchfish
- MRC [G0800509] Funding Source: UKRI
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Psychosis has been recognised as an abnormal state in need of care throughout history and by diverse cultures. Present classifications of psychotic disorder remain based on the presence of specific psychotic symptoms, relative to affective and other symptoms, and their sequence and duration. Although extant diagnostic classifications have restricted validity, they have proven reliability and most clinicians and some patients find them useful. Moreover, these classifications have yet to be replaced by anything better. We propose that an expansion of the subgrouping approach inherent to classification will provide incremental improvement to present diagnostic constructs-as has worked in the rest of medicine. We also propose that subgroups could be created both within and across present diagnostic classifications, taking into consideration the potential value of continuous measures (eg, duration of psychotic symptoms and intelligence quotient). Health-care workers also need to work with service users and carers to develop and adapt approaches to diagnosis that are seen as helpful.
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