Sluggish schizophrenia
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Sluggish schizophrenia or slow progressive schizophrenia (Template:Lang-ru, vyalotekushchaya shizofreniya) was a diagnostic category used in the Soviet Union to describe what was claimed to be a form of schizophrenia characterized by a slowly progressive course; it was diagnosed even in patients who showed no symptoms of schizophrenia or other psychotic disorders, on the assumption that these symptoms would appear later. It was developed in the 1960s by Soviet psychiatrist Andrei Snezhnevsky and his colleagues, and was used exclusively in the USSR and several Eastern Bloc countries, until the fall of Communism starting in 1989.
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See also
- Drapetomania
- Excited delirium
- Female hysteria. Hysteria was a common medical diagnosis in the 19th century.
- The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease
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