Priest R G, Laffont I
Academic Department of Psychiatry, St Mary's Hospital, London, Angleterre.
Ann Med Psychol (Paris). 1992 Apr-May;150(4-5):313-7.
We compare the french diagnostic system with that used in Great-Britain. The criteria are very similar except in the case of the non-affective functional psychoses. The French divide these into acute and chronic. Bouffée délirante, the prototype of the acute functional psychoses, is not diagnosed in Great-Britain. The British divide these psychoses into schizophrenic and non-schizophrenic disorders, particularly using Schneiderian criteria for the diagnosis of schizophrenia. Curiously, it is precisely these criteria, referred to as "automatisme mental" (Clérambault) which are used in France in order to diagnose the "chronic hallucinatory psychoses". This is a diagnosis which is unknown in Great-Britain, and which is in France classed firmly among the non-schizophrenic psychoses, truly a paradoxical situation.
我们将法国的诊断系统与英国使用的诊断系统进行比较。除了在非情感性功能性精神病方面，两者的标准非常相似。法国人将这些疾病分为急性和慢性。急性功能性精神病的原型——急性妄想发作，在英国并不被诊断。英国人将这些精神病分为精神分裂症和非精神分裂症性障碍，特别是使用施奈德标准来诊断精神分裂症。奇怪的是，正是这些被称为“精神自动症”（克莱朗博）的标准，在法国被用于诊断“慢性幻觉性精神病”。这是一种在英国不为人知的诊断，在法国则被明确归类为非精神分裂症性精神病，这真是一种自相矛盾的情况。
