SCHIZOPHRENIFORM PSYCHOSIS
It is superficially a psychosis similar to schizophrenia, Langfeldt sought to
distinguish between schizophrenia and schizophreniform psychosis on the following:
Symptomatology, outcome, response to Electroconvulsive Therapy and insulin coma
therapy.
In U.S.A, Elgin, Philps and Kantor tried to discriminate between schizophrenia and
schizophreniform psychosis mainly on the basis of the premorbid personality and
psychosexual adjustments. Both Langfeldt and American workers assumed that
schizophrenia was endogenous and hereditary and that schizophreniform psychosis was
psychogenic but neither succeeded to put a clear demarcation between the two.
Langfeldt proposed that schizopgreniform had a good prognosis and schizophrenia had
a poor prognosis.