Diagnostic guidelines for schizophrenia in icd-10
a through d: EITHER ONE of the below or TWO OR MORE, IF LESS CLEARCUT (a) thought echo, thought insertion or withdrawal, and thought broadcasting; (b)delusions of control, influence, or passivity, clearly referred to body or limb movements or specific thoughts, actions, or sensations; delusional perception; (c)hallucinatory voices giving a running commentary on the patient's behaviour, or discussing the patient among themselves, or other types of hallucinatory voices coming from some part of the body; (d)persistent delusions of other kinds that are culturally inappropriate and completely impossible, such as religious or political identity, or superhuman powers and - abilities (e.g. being able to control the weather, or being in communication with aliens from another world); OR symptoms from TWO OR MORE of the groups below (e)persistent hallucinations in any modality, when accompanied either by fleeting or half-formed delusions without clear affective content, or by persistent over-valued ideas, or when occurring every day for weeks or months on end; (f)breaks or interpolations in the train of thought, resulting in incoherence or irrelevant speech, or neologisms; (g)catatonic behaviour, such as excitement, posturing, or waxy flexibility, negativism, mutism, and stupor; (h)"negative" symptoms such as marked apathy, paucity of speech, and blunting or incongruity of emotional responses, usually resulting in social withdrawal and lowering of social performance; it must be clear that these are not due to depression or to neuroleptic medication; FOR ONE MONTH OR LONGER Source
