Talk:Schizothymia

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This article was nominated for deletion on November 6, 2007. The result of the discussion was keep.

[edit] This concept

As far as I can tell, the concept of schizothymia has been largely superseded by that of schizotypy, which takes multiple dimensions that can lead to schizophrenia into account. As a clinical term, schizothymia sounds equivalent to the DSM-IV-TR's and the ICD-10's schizoid personality disorder. I see that, in the Articles for Deletion debate, a search results from PubMed were given, but I am willing to bet that most of the recent research merely cites the concept of schizothymia as a historical antecedent to the present state of affairs in schizophrenia research (unfortunately, ready access to the full article is not available from PubMed in most cases).

[edit] Direction for article

Unless references show a meaningful distinction, we are be best off having this term redirect to Schizoid personality disorder or possibly Schizotypy as these articles provide more up-to-date coverage of the same idea.

[edit] Sources

Anyone who can find references to either flesh out this article or show where most appropriately to redirect this term to would be most welcome.--NeantHumain (talk) 00:12, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

Sounds like a neologism, I study and work in psychiatric rehabilitation, this should be deleted...If the term Neurotransmitter-stress syndrome was deleted and I had to rewrite it with citing my references. The resaon for the deletion was it was called a neologism, I personally would like to know these rules that Wikipedia goes by--Recovery Psychology (talk) 00:48, 22 May 2008 (UTC)