Schizophrenia and Schizoaffective Are Psychotic Mood Disorders

CME Educational Objectives 1. Review the historical reasons for splitting functional psychotic illness into “schizophrenia,” and “schizoaffective disorder,” and “psychotic mood disorder.” 2. Describe the modern data that link “schizophrenia,” and “schizoaffective disorder,” and “psychotic mood disorder” into a single illness with a spectrum of severity. 3. Cite the potential to harm patients by splitting functional psychotic illness into “schizophrenia,” and “schizoaffective disorder,” and “psychotic mood disorder.”