The ‘Basic’ Symptoms of Schizophrenia

By concentrating on the apparently uncharacteristic stages in the course of schizophrenia, Huber has drawn attention to subjectively basic symptoms (Huber, 1980, 1983; Huber et al , 1979). He has shown in his long-term follow-up investigations of schizophrenic outpatients that uncharacteristic (basic) stages (see below) prevail in the long term when compared with periods of relapse. His new typology of psychopathological outcome underlined these uncharacteristic (purely asthemic) types of remission ( “reiner Defekt” — Huber 1957 a , 1961, 1966).