محل اختلال اسکیزوآفرنیک در جراحی بینی

Schizoaffective disorder was first described by Kasanin in 1932. This disorder associates schizophrenic symptoms and mood swings. To diagnose a schizoaffective disorder is difficult since this trouble is so vaguely defined. Psychiatrists are confronted to this difficulty daily as there are many patients suffering from mood disorder and schizophrenic symptoms and they are difficult to take care of. Patients suffering from schizoaffective disorder are more often hospitalized and their social and professional insertion is poorer than that of patients suffering from bipolar disorder. On the contrary, these characteristics are more accentuated in schizophrenic patients than in patients with schizoaffective disorder. Epidemiologic research in mental health currently tends to considerate psychosis in a dimensional point of view. This conception is inherited from Griesinger’s unitary psychosis notion. The present article considers historical aspects favouring a concept of continuum of psychosis.