On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Doug Henwood wrote:
> Miles Jackson wrote:
>
> >Just a note on this: nobody has "psychoses" anymore. It's not in the
> >DSM-IV
>
> No, but there's a whole section in DSM-IV (i.e., the fourth edition
> of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical
> Manual) on "psychotic disorders." Are we splitting hairs over the
> difference between "psychoses" and "psychotic disorders"?
>
> Doug
>
Thanks for the clarification. I do notice that the formal definition of psychotic disorders doesn't seem to have much to do with the unconscious. The clinicians I know tend to talk about schizophrenia, schizoid personality disorder, etc., rather than saying someone is "psychotic".
Miles