[1] Patients generally display salient anxiety symptoms that disguise an underlying psychotic disorder.
[citation needed] In the 1940s, psychiatrists Paul Hoch and Philip Polatin created the term pseudoneurotic schizophrenia.
[2] In 1972 it went on to be called borderline personality disorder, a term coined by Otto Friedmann Kernberg, which referred to an expansive range of issues.
[5] The diagnosis of pseudoneurotic schizophrenia can be made with clinical observation and by various psychiatrical exams by a mental health professional and by the patient's explanation of his or her experiences.
A patient must identify with at least two of these symptoms in order to be distinguished as a pseudoneurotic schizophrenic.