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Schizophrenia Bulletin 2007 33(4):861-862; doi:10.1093/schbul/sbm066
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© The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center. All rights reserved. For permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org.

Deconstructing Psychosis

Jim van Os1,2,3 and Carol Tamminga4
2 Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology, South Limburg Mental Health Research and Teaching Network, European Graduate School for Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
3 Division of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, London SE5 8AF, UK
4 Department of Psychiatry and Center for Neuroscience, University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, TX 75235

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Numerous diagnostic categories exist that can be used to order and summarize the various manifestations of psychosis. Although these categories are meant to refer to broadly defined psychopathological syndromes rather than biologically defined diseases that exist in nature, inevitably they undergo a process of reification and come to be perceived by many as natural disease entities, the diagnosis of which has absolute meaning in terms of causes, treatment, and outcome as . . . [Full Text of this Article]

1 To whom correspondence should be addressed; Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology, Maastricht University, PO BOX 616 (location DOT10), 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands; tel: 31-43-3875443, fax: 31-43-3875444, e-mail: j.vanos@sp.unimaas.nl.


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