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fundamental symptoms

according to Eugen Bleuler, the four primary symptoms of schizophrenia: abnormal associations in thinking, autistic behavior and thinking, abnormal affect (including flat and inappropriate affect), and ambivalence. These symptoms are also known as the Four As. Compare secondary symptoms.

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sociocultural deprivation

sociocultural deprivation

see psychosocial deprivation.