Minus symptoms

Minus symptoms are defined as the entirety of symptoms of any neurological or psychological disorder that appear as the failure or lack of previously existing psychological characteristics.

As far as the pure description of a symptom is concerned, this general definition coincides with the concept of the psychological defect . Defect and negative symptoms can e.g. B. represent the final state of a physically justifiable psychosis, the course of which did not end with complete healing.

However, symptoms are also referred to as negative symptoms that relate to a very specific disease, such as the particular symptoms of defective schizophrenia. From this one expects more aetiological and pathogenetic indications of the more detailed conditions and causes of the disease. The minus symptoms are distinguished from the plus symptoms .

Origin of the term

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The terms plus and minus symptoms go back to Walter Birkmayer (1962).

As early as 1948, Henri Ey (1900–1977) distinguished between positive and negative symptoms. With his organodynamic theory, he intended to take into account all aspects that had previously been recorded by psychiatry , neurology and psychoanalysis to understand the symptoms of defects.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Uwe Henrik Peters : Dictionary of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology . Urban & Schwarzenberg, Munich ³ 1984; (a) p. 352 to Wb.-Lemma: "Minussymptome"; (b) p. 352 on Wb-Lemma: "Minussymptomatik"; (c) see (a).
2. ↑ Gerd Huber : Psychiatry . Systematic teaching text for students and doctors. FK Schattauer, Stuttgart 1974, ISBN 3-7945-0404-6 ; P. 6, 46 to the district “psycho-organic defect syndromes”.
3. ^ Henri Ey : Études psychiatriques I-III . Desclée de Brouver, Paris 1948, 1950, 1954.

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