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. 2020 Mar;22(1):37–49. doi: 10.31887/DCNS.2020.22.1/jfoucher

Table I. Overview of the WKL phenotypes (inspired by ref 97). Only the 35 major forms are displayed; the 36 minor forms are two by two combinations of system schizophrenias. See for the consensus on the English translation.

Course Family Neuropsychological domains Polarity
Affect Thought Psychomotricity
Relapsing-
remitting Phasic 
affective 
psychoses Pure 
depressions (D) Pure 
euphorias (E) Mono-
polar
Agitated D Unproductive E
Hypochondriacal D Hypochondriacal E
Self-torturing D Exalted E
Suspicious D Confabulatory E
Non-participatory D Non-participatory E
Pure mania
Pure melancholia
Manic-depressive illness Bipolar
Cycloid 
psychoses Anxiety-happiness psychosis Excited-
inhibited confusion psychosis Hyperkinetic-
akinetic motility psychosis
Progressive relapsing Non-system schizophrenias Affect-laden paraphrenia Cataphasia Periodic catatonia
Progressive System 
schizophrenias (System) hebephrenias (H) System 
paraphrenias (P) System 
catatonias (C) Mono-
morphic
Foolish H Hypochondriacal P Parakinetic C
Eccentric H Voice-
hearing P Pseudo-
compulsive C
Shallow H Incoherent P Proskinetic C
Autistic H Fantastic P Negativistic C
Combined H n=6 Confabulatory P Short-circuit-
speech C
Expansive P Absentminded C
Combined P n=15 Combined C 
n=15