Classification of Endogenous Psychoses and their Differentiated Etiology [Hardcover]

Based on sophisticated clinical descriptions and characteristic symptom patters occurring during the long-term course of psychiatric diseases, Leonhards classification requires that all the clinical features fit for a diagnosis to be made. Always using his own life-long case studies, Leonhard divided the endogenous psychoses into five main nosological groups: on the one hand, the prognostically favourable unipolar affective psychoses, bipolar affective psychoses and cycloid psychoses, and, on the other hand, the prognostically unfavourable unsystematic and systematic schizophrenia. In the meantime, the reliability and validity of this classification have been confirmed by scientific studies and early results provide guidelines for the different origins and varied therapeutic approaches for the specific disease profiles.Clinical Pictures of Phasic Psychoses (without Cycloid Psychoses).- Manic-Depressive Illness.- Pure Melancholia and Pure Mania.- Pure Melancholia.- Pure Mania.- Pure Depressions and Pure Euphorias.- Pure Depressions.- Agitated Depression.- Hypochondriacal Depression.- Self-Tortured Depression.- Suspicious Depression.- Apathetic Depression.- Pure Euphorias.- Unproductive Euphoria.- Hypochondriacal Euphoria.- Exalted Euphoria.- Confabulatory Euphoria.- Indifferent Euphoria.- The Cycloid Psychosis.- Anxiety-Happiness Psychosis.- Excited-Inhibited Confusion Psychosis.- Hyperkinctic-Akinctic Motility Psychosis.- The Unsystematic Schizophrenias.- Affective Paraphrenia.- Cataphasia (Schizophasia).- Periodic Catatonia.- The Systematic Schizophrenias.- Simple Systematic Schizophrenias.- Catatonic forms.- Parakinetic Catatonia.- Manneristic Catatonia.- Proskinetic Catatonia.- Negativistic Catatonia.- Speech-Prompt Catatonia.- Sluggish Catatonia.- Review of the Family Picture of Systematic Catatonias.- Hebephrenic Forms.- Foolish Hebephrenia.- Eccentric Hebephrenia.- Shallow Hebephrenia.- Autistic Hebephrenia.- Review of the Family Picture of Systematic Hebcphrel£)