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Kurt Schneider: First Rank Symptoms Of Schizophrenia

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Kurt Schneider in 1959 also stressed on schizophrenia with focusing on some specific symptoms which he called First Rank Symptoms and considered them important in diagnosis of schizophrenia. These Schneider’s first rank symptoms are: • Audible thoughts- voices speaking out thoughts aloud; • Voices heard arguing- two or more hallucinatory voices discussing the subject in third person; • Voices commenting on one’s actions- hallucinatory voices commenting on the subject’s actions; • Thought withdrawal- the subject experiencing his thoughts to be ceased or removed by an external force; • Thought insertion- the subject experiencing thoughts to be imposed by some external force; • Thought diffusion or broadcasting- the subject experiencing
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