The diagnosis for a schizophrenic patient who is isolated, displays extreme purposeless negativism, is usually mute and assumes a rigid posture when moved is most likely
A. hebephrenic.
B. catatonic.
C. simple.
D. paranoid.
B. catatonic.
The DSM-IV description of Schizophrenia, Catatonic type, includes immobility or excessive purposeless motor activity, negativism, mutism, echolalia or echopraxia. None of the other answers includes this cluster of symptoms.
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