latent schizophrenia

latent schizophrenia
a type of schizophrenia characterized by clear symptoms of schizophrenia but no history of a psychotic schizophrenic episode; it includes conditions that have been called ambulatory, borderline, prepsychotic, pseudoneurotic, and pseudopsychopathic schizophrenia in which has there has been no acute psychotic episode. Patients described by these terms do not fit the DSM-IV definition of schizophrenia; most would be classified as having schizotypal personality disorder (q.v.).

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