Psychotic Disorders

Comorbidity Detection Promotes Improved Diagnosis And Treatment

Jeffrey Kahn, André Barciela Veras
Elsevier
160 pages
ISBN: 978-0323683098
January 2021

From ongoing research emerges a counterintuitive and novel approach to the long-sought goal of subtyping schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders. In this text, five psychoses associated with anxiety and depressive subtypes help define five corresponding psychoses diagnoses, their fixed false beliefs, and most importantly, their treatments.  

These anxiety and depressive comorbidities have long been long overlooked as an understandable hodgepodge of distressing symptoms caused by the pain of psychosis. But these five comorbidities usually precede onset of the psychosis, and their treatment can significantly improve outcome. This books explores the possibility that causality may be reversed: they may in fact be among the underlying contributors to schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders.