The mental health community doesn't classify disorders as "neurotic" or "psychotic" anymore, although psychosis is sometimes a component of major mental disorders. Historically, the concepts related...
No, they are not. As you can probably guess, psychotic disorders are much more severe that psychological disorders. Psychotic disorders usually involve delusions, hallucinations, etc. While,...
Put it this way. A spectrum is a representation of the entire set of colours that are visible. Different types of autism can be represented as different colours on the autism spectrum.
I sometimes wonder why myself. All I seem to get from it is Hallucinogenic Persistent Perception Disorder, Musical Ear Syndrome and some psychedelic effects which seem to occur without taking drugs...