“Negative Symptoms”: A Cu Mu Latlve Trauma Stress Disorder?

Abstract

A theory is proposed that “negative symptoms”, which are usually associated with schizophrenia, are manifestations of a traumatic stress disorder that is fundamentally similar in terms of the clinical phenomena and pathophysiological disturbance to chronic post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as defined in DSM-Ill-R. Wider theoretical implications are explored briefly.