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Subjective symptoms of schizophrenia in research and the clinic: the basic symptom concept
1Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany. frauke.schultze-lutter@uk-koeln.de
Abstract:
Recent focus on early detection and intervention in psychosis has renewed interest in subtle psychopathology beyond positive and negative symptoms. These are self-experienced subclinical disturbances termed basic symptoms (BS). The phenomenologies of BS and their development in the course of psychotic disorders will be described.
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