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The American Journal of Psychiatry, VOL. 78, No. 4

Article | April 01, 1922

REVERSIBLE SCHIZOPHRENIA A Study of the Implications of Delirium Schizophrenoides and Other Post-Influenzal Syndromes

Karl A. Menninger

Am J Psychiatry 1922;78:573-588.

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Topeka, Kansas

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Data.—Type cases of post-influenzal schizophrenia arranged in ascending order of severity from delirium to dementia præcox. Pertinent literature.Deductions.—Dementia præcox is apparently sometimes a chronic delirium (schizophrenia deliriosa). Delirium is apparently sometimes an acute dementia praæcox (delirium schizophrenoides). Both forms are (sometimes) reversible.Inductions.—These two forms may represent an identical process manifested by varying degrees of reversibility of the schizophrenia. The concept "Reversible Schizophrenia" (cf. the term "delirium schizophrenoides") is not a mere nosological quibble, since it may affect our conception of the nature of dementia præcox. It implies conditions of reversibility which we may discover to be under our control!

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