About the course of schizoaffective psychoses

Abstract

This study involves a program that was developed to determine whether there is a need for the category of schizoaffective disorders. The data suggest that the term schizoaffective pychoses should be upheld as a collective name for the group of the functional “mixed psychoses” between the schizophrenic group and that of the (non-psychotic) manic-depressive syndromes, and that like the group of schizophrenic psychoses, that of the schizoaffective psychoses is a heterogeneous group in terms of symptomatology, short-term treatment response, and long-term outcome.