Relationship of Schizo-Affective Psychosis to Manic Depressive Psychosis and Schizophrenia

1972 ◽  
Vol 26 (6) ◽  
pp. 539 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen M. Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Affective Psychosis ◽  
Manic Depressive Psychosis ◽  
Manic Depressive ◽  
Relationship Of

Mixed Affective States and the Natural History of Manic-Depressive Psychosis

1979 ◽  
Vol 134 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. M. H. Nunn
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Random Sample ◽  
Alternative Model ◽  
Depressive Illness ◽  
Affective States ◽  
Manic Depressive Illness ◽  
Affective Psychosis ◽  
Manic Depressive Psychosis ◽  
Manic Depressive ◽  
History Of

SummarySince neither the unipolar nor the bipolar theories of manic-depressive psychosis explain all its features, an alternative model was tested. The hypotheses are that mixed affective psychoses represent a superimposition on hypomania of a second type of depression which can sometimes develop from the depressive phase of manic-depressive psychosis, and that schizophrenia occurring in the course of a manic-depressive illness is an alternative to mixed affective psychosis.From an examination of the clinical histories of a random sample of people with bipolar manic-depressive psychosis, evidence was found to support both ideas.

A Genetic Study of Affective Illness in Patients over 50

1964 ◽  
Vol 110 (465) ◽  
pp. 244-254 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Hopkinson
Keyword(s):  
General Population ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Manic Depressive Psychosis ◽  
Affective Illness ◽  
Manic Depressive ◽  
Increased Risk ◽  
Involutional Melancholia ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Depressive Patients

The genetic evidence concerning affective illness of later life is still conflicting and the relationship of such conditions to the manic-depressive psychosis unclear. Kallman (1955) believed that, genetically, involutional melancholia bore a closer relationship to schizophrenia than to the manic-depressive psychosis. An increased risk for schizophrenia amongst the relatives of such patients was not observed by Kay (1959) and Stenstedt (1952). Both these writers do however describe a lower loading for manic-depressive psychosis than would be found amongst the relations of manic-depressive patients, though a much higher incidence than in the general population. Both Stenstedt and Kay assumed that they were dealing with a heterogeneous group of patients containing both psychotic and neurotic depressions.

Manic Depressive Psychosis with Mental Retardation and Flexion Deformities

1987 ◽  
Vol 150 (1) ◽  
pp. 92-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. H. Reid ◽  
A. J. G. Swanson ◽  
A. S. Jain ◽  
G. Spowart ◽  
A. F. Wright
Keyword(s):  
Mental Retardation ◽  
Surgical Treatment ◽  
Psychotic Disorders ◽  
Clinical Presentation ◽  
Considerable Improvement ◽  
Flexion Deformity ◽  
Affective Psychosis ◽  
Manic Depressive Psychosis ◽  
Manic Depressive ◽  
Resolution Banding

Five mentally handicapped patients are described in whom a bipolar manic depressive psychosis was associated with flexion deformities, involving principally the fingers. The effect of increasing degrees of retardation on the clinical presentation of the affective psychosis is discussed. Surgical treatment of the flexion deformity brought about considerable improvement in one patient. These five patients were further investigated cytogenetically using high resolution banding techniques. The results obtained were interesting but inconclusive. There would seem to be a definite place for further cytogenetic investigations of some of the more distinctive psychotic disorders using this technique.

Manic-Depressive Psychosis: An Alternative Conceptual Model

1968 ◽  
Vol 114 (517) ◽  
pp. 1523-1530 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.H. Court
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Model ◽  
Human Behaviour ◽  
Biological Cycle ◽  
Traditional Concept ◽  
Manic Depressive Psychosis ◽  
Manic Depressive

The traditional concept of manic-depressive psychosis has been either a bi-polar or a circular one, used interchangeably. The psychoanalytic school has invoked the polarity of much of human behaviour as an appropriate analogy. For example “The tragedy is succeeded by the satyr play: after the serious worship of God comes the merry fair… On the same basis the same sequence is represented by the cycle of guilt feelings and unscrupulousness, later by the sequence of guilt feelings and forgiveness…. The manic-depressive cycle is a cycle between periods of increased and decreased guilt feelings: … this cycle, in the last analysis, goes back to the biological cycle of hunger and satiety in the infant” (Fenichel, 1946, p. 409).

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