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The symptom of depression in schizophrenia and its management

2000; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 6; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1192/apt.6.3.169

1472-1481

Ciaran Mulholland, Stephen Cooper,

Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments

Depression is a frequently occurring symptom in schizophrenia. While today it is often underrecognised and under-treated, historically such symptoms were the focus of much attention. Affective symptoms were used by Kraepelin as an important criterion with which to separate dementia praecox from manic–depressive illness. Kraepelin also recognised the importance of depression as a symptom in schizophrenia and identified several depressive subtypes of the illness. Mayer-Gross emphasised the despair that often occurs as a psychological reaction to acute psychotic episodes and Bleuler considered depression to be one of the core symptoms of schizophrenia.