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International Journal of Culture and Mental Health
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The pre-therapeutic classification of comorbidity in chronic disease has been excessively broadened and distorted since A. R. Feinstein’s initial definition of the concept in 1970. Examinations more often than not establish the ‘comorbidity’ of depression and anxiety, instead of looking for a common pathological core of the two conditions. The ‘concurrence’ of symptoms of depression and anxiety, which is indeed very frequent in clinical practice, would be a more acceptable concept. It is even stranger to talk about the comorbidity of obsessive-compulsive disorder and schizophrenia: the question is what constitutes the primary disorder in such a combination. Schizophrenia or affective disorders are also very often categorized as being comorbid with personality disorders, without taking into account the manifestation of some behavioural personality disorders as pre-conditions or a prodrome of more serious disorders.
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