Neurosis and Psychosis in German and French Nosography by Ronaldo Chicre Araujo in Online Journal of Neurology and Brain Disorders in Lupine Publishers
Neuroses and psychoses refer to clinical and nosographic
problems. The terms psychoses and neuroses have long existed in
the nosological vocabulary. Initially, they do not constitute a pair
of opposites, they do not exclude themselves, they can overlap.Psychosis corresponds to mental illness, the psychiatric condition
[1]. It is the technical concept to replace the term madness. In
the nineteenth and early twentieth century, psychosis covered
both mental disorders of organic origin, for example, “paralyticpsychosis” to designate general paralysis, such as functional
diseases, ie delusions, as well as some mental disorders, like
“obsessive psychosis”, which today could be called neurosis. The
term neurosis is rather an aetiological and nosological concept,
since the disorders are not based on the organic lesion. Psychoses
without organic bases and not triggered by a toxic-infectious
process could be considered neuroses.
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