Personlighedstyper ved skizofreni og skizofreniforme psykoser

On the Concept of Autism

“…In episodic schizophreniform psychoses the preautistic personality types are more uncommon (about 30 VO) than in the chronic schizophrenias (about 90 010, Dein, 1964); in what way and how often autistic states may be demonstrated in these episodic psychoses is still to be settled. There should, however, be no logical obstacle in the way of applying the term autistic to an acute schizophrenic patient without necessarily making the prognosis that the psychosis will take a chronic course.…”

“…Before the overt illness preautistic personality deviations can be traced in a great majority of chronic schizophrenics (Dein, 1964), and it is characteristic that in the phases previous to the manifest psychosis a development towards an increasing autistic attitude is taking place. (By preautistic is meant a personality disorder which involves a predisposition to an autistic state, but it does not imply that such personalities are necessarily predestinated to such developments.…”