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Childhood asociality in the differential diagnosis of schizophrenia with drug abuse vs. psychosis with drug intoxication

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In a sample of 15 patients who had schizophrenia with drug abuse and 11 patients who had psychosis with drug intoxication, the presence or absence of the constellation of “childhood asociality” discriminated between these two entities. Furthermore, unexpectedly, schizophrenic drugabusing patients with asocial childhood histories believed that the drugs they had abused had caused their illness, while patients with the acute brain syndromes believed the drug abuse was NOT related to their illness.

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  1. Psychiatry of the National Institute of Mental Health, University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco Medical Center, 94143, San Francisco, Cal.

    Ira D. Glick M.D. (Career Teacher)

  2. Department of Psychiatry, University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco Medical Center, 94143, San Francisco, Cal.

    Ira D. Glick M.D. (Career Teacher)

  3. Central Clinic, Cincinnati General Hospital, Cincinnati, USA

    Dan K. Winstead M.D. (Child Psychiatrist Fellow)

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Glick, I.D., Winstead, D.K. Childhood asociality in the differential diagnosis of schizophrenia with drug abuse vs. psychosis with drug intoxication. Psych Quar 47, 208–217 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01562227

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