Twin studies of psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia and autism spectrum disorder
have employed epidemiological approaches that determine heritability by comparing the …

Bipolar disorder (BD) and schizophrenia are psychiatric disorders that manifest unusual
mental, behavioral, and emotional patterns leading to suffering and disability. These …

The introduction of the term and concept schizophrenia earned its inventor, Swiss
psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler, worldwide fame. Prompted by the rejection of the main principle …

The subjective disturbances of schizophrenia have long been established in a coherent
phenomenological theory. The intersubjective dimension of the disorder, however …

Background and hypothesis This survey explores Swiss mental health professionals', users',
and relatives' opinions on re-naming schizophrenia exploiting Switzerland's specific …

Background Although the concept of schizophrenia is still widely presented as having
replaced that of dementia praecox, studies have shown that the former was broader than the …

Standard diagnostic systems, the predominantly categorical DSM-5 and ICD-11, have
limitations in validity, utility, and predictive and descriptive power. For psychotic disorders …

In the 19th century, psychiatric genetic studies typically utilized a generic category of
“insanity.” This began to change after 1899, with the publication of Kraepelin's 6th edition …

Since its beginnings psychiatry controversely debated about the appropriate concept of
illness, about nosology and the diagnostic terms and procedures based upon it. This paper …

Despite its important clinical implications, Bleuler's early contention that discrete symptoms
such as delusions and hallucinations are secondary to a core fragmentation (splitting) of …