Lack of Use in the Literature From the Last 20 Years Supports Dropping Traditional Schizophrenia Subtypes From DSM-5 and ICD-11

The diagnoses of paranoia, catatonia, and hebephrenia preceded the use of dementia praecox and Bleuler's subsequent recognition of a heterogenous "Group of Schizophrenias." With some modification, traditional schizophrenia subtypes have been formalized for many years in the Diagnostic...

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Published in:Schizophrenia bulletin 2013-07, Vol.39 (4), p.751-753
Main Authors: BRAFF, David L, RYAN, James, RISSLING, Anthony J, CARPENTER, William T
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult and adolescent clinical studies
Biological and medical sciences
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
Humans
International Classification of Diseases - statistics & numerical data
Medical sciences
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Psychoses
Regular
Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia, Catatonic
Schizophrenia, Disorganized
Schizophrenia, Paranoid
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Summary:The diagnoses of paranoia, catatonia, and hebephrenia preceded the use of dementia praecox and Bleuler's subsequent recognition of a heterogenous "Group of Schizophrenias." With some modification, traditional schizophrenia subtypes have been formalized for many years in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) and International Classification of Diseases (ICD) classification systems. While widely used in the past, it is not clear that the schizophrenia subtypes remain in wide use or are influential in 21st-century research and clinical practice, and especially in the scientific literature. A review of published articles reveals over the last 20 years (1990, 2000, 2010) the use of traditional subtypes in the literature has fallen from 27.7% to 9.8% to 6.5%. Thus, by 2010, the use of subtypes in the leading literature venues declined to
ISSN:0586-7614
1745-1701
DOI:10.1093/schbul/sbt068