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The Diagnostic Ambiguity of Postpsychotic Depression

Author(s) -

Eric Goplerud,

Richard A. Depue

Publication year - 1978

Publication title -

schizophrenia bulletin

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.823

H-Index - 190

eISSN - 1745-1707

pISSN - 0586-7614

DOI - 10.1093/schbul/4.4.477

Subject(s) - depression (economics) , psychiatry , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , psychosis , psychotic depression , bipolar disorder , psychology , depressive symptoms , clinical psychology , medicine , cognition , economics , macroeconomics

A clearly differentiated episode of depression in the aftermath of acute psychosis reportedly occurs in approximately 25 percent of all patients hospitalized with a diagnosis of acute schizophrenia. A comparison of premorbid functioning, symptomatology, and clinical course in patients with a postpsychotic depression following acute schizophrenic episodes and patients in the depressed phase of bipolar depressive illness suggests a high congruence between the two disorders. The results support the growing evidence that bipolar depressive illness is frequently misdiagnosed as acute schizophrenia.

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