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First rank symptoms of schizophrenia. I. The frequnncy in schizophrenics on admission to hospital. II. Differences between individual first rank symptoms.

Mellor Cs
- 01 Jul 1970 - 
- Vol. 117, Iss: 536, pp 15-23
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This paper gives an account of these symptoms in schizophrenics, on admission to mental hospital; the assumption being that if they are the defining symptoms of the illness then they should be most prominent in the acute phase.
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Kurt Schneider (1939) set a high value on certain symptoms in the diagnosis of schizophrenia. He named them ‘first rank symptoms'. This paper gives an account of these symptoms in schizophrenics, on admission to mental hospital; the assumption being that if they are the defining symptoms of the illness then they should be most prominent in the acute phase.

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Dementia praecox and paraphrenia

TL;DR: "Dementia Praecox and Paraphrenia" (1919) was the book in which Kraepelin first presented his work on schizophrenia to the English-speaking world, and it was probably the most influential psychiatric text of the entire 20th century, and has now become rare.
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The Phenomenological Approach in Psychopathology

TL;DR: In the examination of a psychiatric patient it is usual to distinguish between objective and subjective symptoms as mentioned in this paper, i.e., all concrete events that can be perceived by the senses, e.g. reflexes, registrable move ments, an individual's physiognomy, his motor activity, verbal expression, written productions, actions and general conduct, etc.
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“Inner Voices”: Phenomenological and Clinical Aspects

TL;DR: The experience of hearing a "voice" or "loud thoughts" within the head or some other part of the body is not infrequently reported by psychiatric patients as mentioned in this paper, and it has been shown that these phenomena superficially resemble the schizophrenic experience of "thoughts becoming audible" but that distinction is possible on phenomenological grounds.