Acute Schizophrenia
- 1 September 1971
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of General Psychiatry
- Vol. 25 (3) , 215-222
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archpsyc.1971.01750150023004
Abstract
Diagnostic and treatment interactions between the physician and the patient have role-inducing "side effects." Our present approach to the acutely psychotic adult may assign a "mental illness" role which further injures the person's potential for growth and adaptation. An alternative approach to the diagnosis and treatment of acute schizophrenia is described in a case history. The focus avoids invidious labels resulting from categorizing and suppressing an "illness process"; instead, the diagnostic and treatment interactions define the psychotic experience as offering possibilities for growth which were previously unavailable in the prepsychotic state.Keywords
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