Two examples of a brief psychotic reaction occurring during adolescence are reported. In spite of symptoms of apparently serious significance the patients made a rapid recovery. The criteria by which such cases of “reactive psychosis in adolescence” may be distinguished from schizophrenia or manic-depressive psychosis are discussed and the value of retaining this separate category considered.
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