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1Klinik und Poliklinik für Psychiatrie, der Universität Leipzig, Semmelweisstrasse 10, Leipzig. oliver.somburg@medizin.uni-leipzig.de
Abstract:
50 years after the first description of cenesthetic schizophrenia as a concept by Gerd Huber, it can be valued as a starting point of fundamental insights into the course of schizophrenia and also for the development of the concept of basic symptoms assessment. Because patients suffering from cenesthetic schizophrenia are often misdiagnosed, it is still relevant for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes in practise today. Cenesthetic symptoms can be considered as substrate-close because they can be part of idiopathic psychosyndromes and also of organic brain lesions. Therefore they could be allocated as a typical example of the possible phenomenological identity or overlap of neurological and psychopathological symptomatology. The historical, psychopathological methodological and clinical foundations of the concept of cenesthetic schizophrenia will be demonstrated and the importance of this work for today will be emphasized.
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