Psychiatry and Psychology

Psychotic Disorders

Disorders in which there is a loss of ego boundaries or a gross impairment in reality testing with delusions or prominent hallucinations. (From DSM-IV, 1994)

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Abstract

Disorders in which there is a loss of ego boundaries or a gross impairment in reality testing with delusions or prominent hallucinations. (From DSM-IV, 1994)

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Synonyms

19 entry terms
  • Psychoses
  • Psychosis
  • Disorder, Psychotic
  • Disorders, Psychotic
  • Psychotic Disorder
  • Psychosis, Brief Reactive
  • Schizoaffective Disorder
  • Schizophreniform Disorders
  • Brief Reactive Psychoses
  • Brief Reactive Psychosis
  • Disorder, Schizoaffective
  • Disorder, Schizophreniform
  • Disorders, Schizoaffective
  • Disorders, Schizophreniform
  • Psychoses, Brief Reactive
  • Reactive Psychoses, Brief
  • Reactive Psychosis, Brief
  • Schizoaffective Disorders
  • Schizophreniform Disorder

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Aspects Covered

30 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, classification, complications, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, virology.

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Indexing Annotation

puerperal psychoses = PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS (IM) + PUERPERAL DISORDERS (IM)

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History Note

81; was PSYCHOSES 1963-80

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NLM Classification

WM 200

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Psychotic Disorders. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D011618. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D011618
  2. Psychotic Disorders. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychotic_disorder
  3. Psychotic Disorders. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q115991831