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Acute psychoses are characterized primarily by their manner of creation: We should consider as acute [Ed], using the word ‘acute’ [Ed] as it is used in other organic diseases, all of those mental disorders which develop within hours, days, or over several weeks to produce a significant level of symptoms. Further development of the illness is then subject to whether and for how long the patient remains in the acute stage, whether there is recovery, or whether the disorder progresses to a chronic condition. In the latter situation, acute psychosis merges into an acute initial stage of a chronic psychosis. With the same logic, acute stages of chronic psychoses presenting at times other than the initial period must be regarded as acute psychoses.
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Miller, R., Dennison, J. (2015). Lecture 18. In: Miller, ONZM, B.A., B.Sc., PhD., R., Dennison, J.P., M.Sc., B.A., J. (eds) An Outline of Psychiatry in Clinical Lectures. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18051-9_18
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