ReviewSchizophrenia bulletin2019
Reassessing "Praecox Feeling" in Diagnostic Decision Making in Schizophrenia: A Critical Review.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 48 citations in OpenAlex.
- Expressive pragmatic language in mood and psychotic disorders: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Schizophrenia (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2026Review
- Dual-process theories beyond cognitive psychology: psychodynamic, clinical, and neurobiological perspectives.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Review
- Literary case study of psychosis:World journal of psychiatry · 2025Review
- Close, yet so far away: a phenomenology of the praecox feeling in the diagnosis of schizophrenia as intercorporeal alienness.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Review
- Disorganized Communication and Social Dysfunction in Schizophrenia: Emerging Concepts and Methods.Current psychiatry reports · 2023Review
- Understanding incomprehensibility: Misgivings and potentials of the phenomenological psychopathology of schizophrenia.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- How to Teach/Learn Praecox Feeling? Through Phenomenology to Medical Education.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- Psychiatrists Report Praecox Feeling and Find It Reliable. A Cross-Cultural Comparison.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
- Drawing a line in the sand: affect and testimony in autism assessment teams in the UK.Sociology of health & illness · 2020Article
- Erratum: A Phenomenological Paradigm for Empirical Research in Psychiatry and Psychology: Open Questions.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- A Phenomenological Paradigm for Empirical Research in Psychiatry and Psychology: Open Questions.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
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6 authors at 6 institutions in 4 countries.
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Abstract
The "Praecox Feeling" (PF) is a classical concept referring to a characteristic feeling of bizarreness experienced by a psychiatrist while encountering a person with schizophrenia. Although the PF used to be considered a core symptom of the schizophrenia spectrum, it fell into disuse since the spread of operationalized diagnostic methods (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders/International Classification of Diseases systems). In contemporary research on schizophrenia, it remains largely unaddressed. This critical review investigates the evolution of the PF in historical and contemporary literature and presents an exhaustive overview of empirical evidence on its prevalence in clinical decision making, its reliability and validity. The review demonstrates that the PF is a real determinant of medical decision making in schizophrenia, although, without further research, there is not enough evidence to sustain its rehabilitation as a reliable and valid clinical criterion. PF-like experiences should not be opposed to any criteriological attitude in diagnosis and would be clinically useful if the conditions of descriptive precaution and rigorous epistemology are maintained. The aim of teaching clinical expertise is to transform this basic experience into a well-founded clinical judgment. Finally, the article discusses the possible relevance of the PF for basic science and clinical research according to a translational approach inspired by phenomenology.
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