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Schizoafective disorder: diagnostic difficulties – about two clinical cases

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2020

I. Domingues
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Hospital of S. João, Porto, Portugal
S. Timóteo
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Hospital of S. João, Porto, Portugal
I. Costa
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Hospital of S. João, Porto, Portugal
C. Silveira
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Hospital of S. João, Porto, Portugal
R. Curral
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Hospital of S. João, Porto, Portugal
A. Palha
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Hospital of S. João, Porto, Portugal

Abstract

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Kasanin first used the term “schizoafective disorder” in 1933, to describe a sub-group of patients with simultaneous schizophrenic and affective symptoms, and relatively good prognosis. Discussions were held afterwards about the possibility that this category could simply be considered a subtype of schizophrenia or affective pathology, or placed in a continuum between both disorders, or individualized as a distinct clinical entity.

Now-a-days, the controversy still exists, being quite probably the most controversial diagnosis in the international classifications.

The authors make some theoretical considerations about the theme and present two clinical cases that illustrate these diagnostic difficulties.

Type
Poster Session 2: Diagnosis and Classification Issues
Copyright
Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2007
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