Pseudoneurotic_schizophrenia
Pseudoneurotic schizophrenia
Medical condition
Pseudoneurotic schizophrenia is a postulated mental disorder categorized by the presence of two or more symptoms of mental illness such as anxiety, hysteria, and phobic or obsessive-compulsive neuroses. It is often acknowledged as a personality disorder.[1] Patients generally display salient anxiety symptoms that disguise an underlying psychotic disorder.[citation needed]
In the 1940s, psychiatrists Paul Hoch and Philip Polatin created the term pseudoneurotic schizophrenia. This mental illness, however, is no longer acknowledged as a clinical entity.[2] In 1972 it went on to be called borderline personality disorder, a term coined by Otto Friedmann Kernberg, which referred to an expansive range of issues.[3]
Pseudoneurotic schizophrenia is in the Russian adapted version of the ICD-10 (code F21.3).[4] It is also in ICD-10 listed as a schizotypal disorder.[5]