DSM Approach to Schizophrenia
This section describes the DSM approach to symptoms of schizophrenia employed by psychiatrists and other mental health professionals. Also see the separate section “ICD Approach to Schizophrenia”.
Providing general information on schizophrenic disorders, this section also describes the symptoms employed by psychiatrists as diagnostic criteria for disorders such as paranoid schizophrenia and catatonic schizophrenia. Both ICD and DSM approaches are covered here.
This section describes the DSM approach to symptoms of schizophrenia employed by psychiatrists and other mental health professionals. Also see the separate section “ICD Approach to Schizophrenia”.
This section describes the ICD approach to symptoms of schizophrenia employed by psychiatrists and other mental health professionals. Also see the separate section “DSM Approach to Schizophrenia”.
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