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Diagnosis and chronic mental illness
- Source :
- Psychiatric Quarterly. 50:166-177
- Publication Year :
- 1978
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 1978.
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Abstract
- This paper describes the occurrence of chronicity in varying psychiatric illnesses. There is not an unequivocal definition of chronicity, but with the exception of the illnesses that will be described below and that lead directly or indirectly to death from CNS complications of the illness, chronicity will require a duration of a minimum of five years without a significant remission. Chronicity is further differentiated into four different kinds of chronicity: chronic--death, chronic--self-limited, chronic--remission, and chronic--recurrent. The illnesses that may be considered as possibly fulfilling the criteria for chronic will be noted and a method for deciding whether an illness qualifies will be outlined.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Time Factors
Neurotic Disorders
Paraphilic Disorders
Substance-Related Disorders
business.industry
Mental Disorders
Public health
Remission, Spontaneous
Neurocognitive Disorders
Prognosis
Personality Disorders
Alcoholism
Psychiatry and Mental health
Psychotic Disorders
Recurrence
Chronic mental illness
Intellectual Disability
Chronic Disease
medicine
Humans
business
Psychiatry
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15736709 and 00332720
- Volume :
- 50
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Psychiatric Quarterly
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....7f8ab1f556e334214aa81c94d222360b