TY - BOOK AU - Allen,David Frank TI - Schizoid condition and simple melancholia: Discrete psychoses PY - 2017///. N1 - 7 N2 - Over the past two hundred years there have been many attempts to come to terms with clinical situations in which a clear-cut case for psychosis is difficult to make. We present a number of clinical cases followed by an analysis of the clinical signs present in them. We propose a provisional definition of the schizoid position and of simple melancholia based on the sense of the impossible, the nature of being, the mirror sign, and Chaslin’s notion of discordance UR - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-l-information-psychiatrique-2017-8-page-685?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080 ER -