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Sluggish schizophrenia

c. 1960s

Outdated concept by Soviet psychiatrist Snezhnevsky, describing a mental state similar to schizophrenia, but without psychosis, instead expressed in lightweight negative symptoms; used as an analogue of the StPD in Russia; used to repress dissidents. It dates from around 1960s. Credit for it goes to Andrei Snezhnevsky.

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