Differential diagnosis

130. Is the problem with different identities or personalities due to substance abuse (e.g. alcohol blackouts) or a general medical condition?

Yes=1 No=2 Unsure=3 [ ]

Dissociative Identity Disorder

This is scored by DSM-IV rules. The subject must be positive for questions 127-130 to receive a diagnosis of DID.

under ice wrote:Is it saying that you have to answer 'yes' to question 130 in order to receive a diagnosis of DID?

under ice wrote:Moreover I didn't understand this:

130. Is the problem with different identities or personalities due to substance abuse (e.g. alcohol blackouts) or a general medical condition?

Yes=1 No=2 Unsure=3 [ ]

Dissociative Identity Disorder

This is scored by DSM-IV rules. The subject must be positive for questions 127-130 to receive a diagnosis of DID.

Is it saying that you have to answer 'yes' to question 130 in order to receive a diagnosis of DID?

yakusoku wrote:Schneiderian First Rank Symptoms - 5 YES and 3 Unsure, because I know those things are internal, even if they don't feel like me.

A Disappearing Heritage: The Clinical Core of Schizophrenia by J. Parnas, Schizophr Bull. 2011 Jul 19

This article traces the fundamental descriptive features of schizophrenia described in the European continental literature form Kraepelin and Bleuler, culminating with the creation of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD)-8 (1974). There was a consensus among the researchers that the specificity and typicality of schizophrenia was anchored to its "fundamental" clinical core (with trait status) and not to positive psychotic features, which were considered as "state", "accessory" phenomena. The clinical core of schizophrenia was, in a diluted form, constitutive of the spectrum conditions ("schizoidia" and "latent schizophrenia"). The fundamental features are manifest across all domains of consciousness: subjective experience, expression, cognition, affectivity, behavior, and willing. Yet, the specificity of the core was only graspable at a more comprehensive Gestalt-level, variously designated (eg, discordance, autism, "Spaltung"), and not on the level of single features. In other words, the phenomenological specificity was seen as being expressive of a fundamental structural or formal change of the patient's mentality (consciousness, subjectivity). This overall change transpires through the single symptoms and signs, lending them a characteristic phenomenological pattern. This concept of schizophrenia bears little resemblance to the current operational definitions. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, and ICD-10 seem to diagnose a subset of patients with chronic paranoid-hallucinatory variant of schizophrenia.