Current nosographic position and diagnosis difficulties of pseudo-obsessive compulsive schizophrenia: A study from three case report

Proceeding from three case report, the authors try to review pseudo-obsessi ve schizophrenia within contempory anglo-saxon nosography. They study the c linical aspect of border-lines, obsessive-compulsive disorder with psychoti c features, and schizophrenia with obsessive-compulsive symptoms, that they compare to pseudo-obsessive compulsive schizophrenia. Diagnosis of pseudo-neurotic schizophrenia is difficult at the onset of ill ness and requires strict semiological analysis. The prognosis remains depen dent on mt early therapeutic intervention adjusted to the psychotic nature or not of the clinical picture.