Bipolar Unipolar Dichotomy
Bipolar Unipolar Dichotomy
Bipolar Unipolar Dichotomy
Dr Rupinder Gill
He classified nonorganic ‘endogenous’ disorders into 2 main
Kraeplin’s groups:
1. Manic Depressive Psychosis (MDP)
Dichotomy 2. Dementia Praecox
Leonhard’s
classification of
endogenous
psychosis
He was able to show that bipolar illness started on an average
Perris 15 years earlier than depression and recurred more frequently.
Classifications 1. ICD 11
used in clinical 2. DSM 5
practice
It describes disorders with prominent primary mood symptoms:
1. Depressive
ICD 11 2. Manic
3. Mixed
4. Hypomanic
Bipolar disorders
Classifications 3. RDC