Schizophreniform Disorder and Brief Psychotic Disorder: The Acute and Transient Psychoses

Bouffée Délirante and ICD-10 Acute and Transient Psychoses: A Comparative Study

“…[36]). A more detailed analysis of the present data showed that the majority of episodes during the follow-up period could be classified as ATPD, but affective and schizoaffective episodes occurred as well [25]. Two patients showed diagnostic change to schizophrenia.…”

“…The sample described in this study is composed of 42 inpatients with ATPD treated at the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy of Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg between 1993 and 1997. The details of recruitment and data acquisition have been described elsewhere [24, 25]. Briefly, patients with a clinical discharge diagnosis of ATPD were considered for inclusion in the study.…”

Classic Text No. 134: ‘A case of Wernicke-Bostroem’s expansive autopsychosis’, by Ib Ostenfeld (1944)

“…Eventually, with the other Wernickean illness entities Angstpsychose and Motilitätpsychose , ‘ Expansive Autopsychose ’ became named as ‘cycloid psychoses’ (Barcia, 2001; Kleist, 1928; Leonhard, 1961; Marneros and Pillmann, 2004; Perris, 1995; Pillmann et al, 2000). However, this was not generally accepted by Anglo-American psychiatry, and in the international classification, the International Classification of Diseases (ICD)-10, it is ‘placed’ under ‘Acute and Transient Psychotic Disorders’ (ATPD), and in the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) under ‘Brief Psychotic Disorder’.…”