August Wimmer’s Concept: Psychogenic Psychoses, a Source-Critical Study

Schioldann, Johan

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“…Different factors were responsible for the development of RP in different psychiatric traditions since its inception in the work of Jaspers (1913Jaspers ( /1948. In Scandinavian countries, RP was readily accepted and further developed as a category encompassing emotional, confusional, and paranoid syndromes distinct from schizophrenia and bipolar disorder (Castagnini, 2010;Faergeman, 1963;Retterstøl, 1966;Schioldann, 2020;Strömgren, 1940;Wimmer, 1916), whereas in Continental (European) and British psychiatry, its diffusion was hindered by strong opposition to "psychogenesis" and controversies about the validity of reactive depression (Lewis, 1934(Lewis, , 1972Slater, 1964). Schneider's (1959 view that all psychoses have a "somatic" basis was also influential and contributed to causing the neglect of RP in modern psychiatric classifications (Gabriel, 1987;Strömgren, 1989).…”

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Reactive Psychosis

Castagnini

Berríos

2023

J Nerv Ment Dis

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Reactive psychosis (RP) is a trauma-induced category whose meaning has varied in relation to the role attributed to lived experiences or vulnerable personality. It has long been described in different countries, but seldom investigated under the influence of symptom-based psychiatric classifications. This article aims to examine the development of RP since the early 20th century, outline how it has been incorporated in modern diagnostic classifications, and set out empirical findings. It is likely that variations in terminology and diagnostic practice have affected estimates of the frequency and hampered the validity of RP in earlier studies. To enhance reliability, RP underwent several changes in successive Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders and ICD versions and was eventually replaced with descriptive categories for short-lived psychotic disorders. Clinical observations during the COVID-19 pandemic attest the durability of RP, but the current categories prove unhelpful in identifying it and have failed to encourage research.

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Reactive Psychosis

Castagnini

Berríos

2023

J Nerv Ment Dis

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“…Kleist considered the ecstatic ‘ Eingebungspsychose ’ to be a manifestation of a centrifugal shifting of the relationship between the subject and the object, and in the persecutory hallucinosis a centripetal shifting, but both of them taking place within the ‘ Gemeinschafts ’-sphere. In Strömgren’s opinion, Kleist’s cases apparently consisted of inane acute persecutory states, and hyper-sensitive hallucinatory states as can be found in psychogenic psychoses (see Schioldann, 2020).…”

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Classic Text No. 134: ‘A case of Wernicke-Bostroem’s expansive autopsychosis’, by Ib Ostenfeld (1944)

Schioldann

2023

Hist Psychiatry

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Expansive autopsychosis, grouped with cycloid psychoses – an illness entity of double origin: (1) Morel’s notion degeneracy, reformulated by Magnan and Legrain (reflected in Wimmer’s concept: psychogenic psychosis); (2) Wernicke’s, Kleist’s, Bostroem’s (and later Leonhard’s) notion of these purportedly independent conditions. Locked in the Danish language, Strömgren and Ostenfeld provided important contributions to this field, exemplified by Ostenfeld’s casuistry, translated in this Classic Text.

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Historical and conceptual features of acute polymorphic psychosis: a myth of European psychiatry from bouffée délirante to ICD-11 acute and transient psychotic disorder

Castagnini

2024

Hist Psychiatry

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This paper deals with the history and epistemology of acute polymorphic psychosis. We undertook a comparative study of short-lived psychotic disorders used in different European countries since the late nineteenth century. The theory of degeneration offered a speculative basis to conceptualization of conditions such as bouffée délirante, cycloid psychosis and reactive psychosis, but it seems likely that different factors contributed to the profusion of clinical concepts with adverse effects on both nomenclature and classification. The resulting picture suggests that earlier nosological concepts tend to converge on common descriptive features and challenge the diagnostic categories for short-lived psychotic disorders listed in modern symptom-based psychiatric classifications.

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August Wimmer’s Concept: Psychogenic Psychoses, a Source-Critical Study

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Reactive Psychosis

Reactive Psychosis

Classic Text No. 134: ‘A case of Wernicke-Bostroem’s expansive autopsychosis’, by Ib Ostenfeld (1944)

Historical and conceptual features of acute polymorphic psychosis: a myth of European psychiatry from bouffée délirante to ICD-11 acute and transient psychotic disorder

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