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Kurt Schneider’s First-Rank Symptoms for Schizophrenia

Classic Reprints


Winter 2005 - Table of Contents

Contents
Editorial
President’s Message/Jeff Barnett

From the Editor/Ed Lundeen

Special Editor’s Column -- The Lost Tribe/Stanley Graham


The National Perspective
New Faces – New Opportunities /Pat DeLeon

Washington Update/Ron Levant

APA Council of Representatives Report/Melba Vasquez

Florida’s Hurricane’s/Hilda Besner


Classic Reprints
The Dark Side of Evidence Based Treatment/Ron Fox

On Being Called a Provider/Karen Shore

Hallucinations/Ed Zuckerman

Schneiders First Rank Symptoms

Consumer Groups Listing


Practioner's Information
How Psychotherapy Works/Stanley Moldawsky

Pharmacotherapy in GAD/Dan Egli

The Importance of Documenting Your Training/J.B. Goebel

LGB Clients amd Their Therapists/Armand R. Cerbone and Kristin A. Hancock

Stalkers: Not Just for celebrities Anymore, Part 1/Linda Grounds

The 97532 Procedure Code/Peter Magaro


Early Career Professionals and Continuing Education
My Experience with Psychopharmacology Training/Sally Horwatt

Mentors Corner/Miguel E. Gallardo and Michael J. Murphy


Eine Kleine Dummheit
A New DSM Disorder/Rodney Timbrook

(Editor’s Note – While these may not reflect the DSM-IV criteria, Schneider’s classic work remains a useful heuristic tool)

  1. Hallucinated voices speaking the patient’s thoughts aloud.
  2. Hallucinated voices talking or arguing among themselves about the patient.
  3. Hallucinated voices describing the patient’s activity as it takes place.
  4. Delusional percepts: a two-stage phenomenon consisting of a normal perception followed by a delusional interpretation of it as having a special and highly personalized significance.
  5. Somatic passivity - the patient believes he is the passive recipient of bodily sensations imposed from the outside.
  6. Thought insertion - the patient believes thoughts are put into his mind by an external force.
  7. Thought withdrawal - the patient believes his thoughts are being removed from his mind by an outside force.
  8. Thought broadcast - the patient believes his thoughts are somehow transmitted to others.
  9. The patient believes his affect is controlled by an outside force.
  10. The patient believes his impulses and/or motor activities are controlled by an outside force.

First rank symptoms are considered to be pathognomonic for schizophrenia in the absence of organic psychopathology. They are helpful but will yield many false positives. They should not be used as absolute criteria for diagnosis.