Abstract Background and Aim Schizophrenia and bipolar disorder (BD) are critical and high‐
risk inherited mental disorders with debilitating symptoms. Worldwide, 3% of the population …

Psychiatrists rely on language and speech behavior as one of the main clues in psychiatric
diagnosis. Descriptive psychopathology and phenomenology form the basis of a common …

A new computational and dimensional approach to understanding and classifying mental
disorders: modeling key learning and decision-making mechanisms across different mental …

Kurt Schneider has played a leading role in shaping our current view of schizophrenia,
placing certain manifestations of delusions and hallucinations at the center of the disorder …

To evaluate the internal consistency and factor structure of the Italian translation of the 12-
item International Trauma Questionnaire (ITQ), 382 trauma-exposed and 366 non-trauma …

The problem of delusion–das Wahnproblem–constitutes the central puzzle of descriptive
psychopathology. The question 'what is it to suffer delusion?'is easy to ask, but surprisingly …

Kurt Schneider introduced in the definition of the first-rank symptoms (FRS) the criterion that,
where unequivocally present, the FRS are always psychological primaries and irreducible …

Background: The diagnostic weight of the first-rank symptoms was deemphasized in DSM-5
and a similar change is expected in ICD-11. This change was motivated by a lack of solid …

Delusional perception designates a sudden, idiosyncratic, and often self-referential delusion
triggered by a neutral perceptual content. In classical psychopathology, delusional …

The letter presents findings from a study that sought to empirically test Kurt Schneider's
(1959) claim that First-Rank Symptoms (FRS) involve self-disorders. Schneider's concept of …