Năm 1986, ba nhà tâm thần học châu Phi từ Algeria, Morocco và Tunisia chỉnh sửa bằng tay đầu tiên cho các học viên Bắc châu Phi, trong đó phản ánh ảnh hưởng của hệ thống chẩn đoán tâm thần Pháp. Một tính năng nổi bật của hướng dẫn sử dụng là sự nhấn mạnh vào vấn đề hữu cơ không phải là một phần của định nghĩa | 266 PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS AND CLASSIFICATION A significant outcome of the Cuban classification is the stimulation of the first Latin American glossary of psychiatry as a Latin American annotation of ICD-10. Africa In 1986 three African psychiatrists from Algeria Morocco and Tunisia edited the first Manual for North African Practitioners which reflects the influence of the French psychiatric diagnostic system. A prominent feature of the manual is its emphasis on organic problems that are not part of the Anglo-Saxon definition of mental disorders. In general somatization seems to dominate the psychiatric picture reflected in the manual. The listing of chronic delusional psychoses confusional psychoses and bouffees délir-antes as major types of mental illness reflect the influence of French nosology 87 India Wig and Singh 88 first reported their experience with the existing classifications ICD-7 and DSM-I and suggested some modifications derived from their clinical observations. They mostly found both systems useful in India. However they suggested the landmark inclusion of a category which they named acute psychosis of uncertain etiology with subdivisions with predominantly confusional picture and with predominantly paranoid-hallucinatory picture . It is noteworthy that they differentiated it from hysterical psychosis which they included in the category of reactive psychosis which had further subdivisions. Later Wig and Narang 89 described cases of acute short-lived hysterical psychosis following some major life event. This kind of psychosis was seen more often in people with hysterical personality or who had suffered from hysterical illness in the past. The psychosis began suddenly and dramatically with onset related to an event which was profoundly upsetting for the individual. It terminated abruptly leaving no residual defect and recurrences were possible if the stress was not alleviated. ICD-10 FIELD TRIALS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES The international field trial of
