The Treatment of Schizoaffective DisorderSchizoaffective disorder is a psychotic disorder that distorts a person's perception of reality. Very similar to schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder has symptoms that include hallucinations, delusions, and disorganized speech. This illness also shows similarities to affective disorders, such as bipolar disorder, with symptoms that include major depressive episodes, manic episodes, or these types of symptoms are mixed with those found in psychotic disorder. Like schizophrenia and affective disorders, this illness is difficult to treat based on discovering the cause of the episode, the type of treatment available for the schizoaffective disorder, and adherence to the regimen created for treatment. What will be done here is to review various literary sources that go into detail about what schizoaffective disorder is and its causes, the types of treatments used for people with schizoaffective disorder, and the cooperation of patients with schizoaffective disorder. Marneros and Angst (2000) did some research to find the origins of schizoaffective disorder and found that between the 1860s and 1960s, Karl Kahlbaum and finally Kurt Schneider provided a type of category for schizoaffective disorder based on their findings of “polymorphic psychotic disorders longitudinal,” otherwise known as “concurrent” schizoaffective disorder (p. 111). This category was based on the amount of both schizophrenic and affective episodes. What this demonstrates is that by observing patients and making diagnoses regarding the onset, duration, and severity of each type of episode (p. 111). There was also discussion about differentiation... in the center of the paper... there is space to give an accurate reading of the MOAS scale. Once the results were analyzed, it was concluded that there was no significant difference between the three drug groups regarding the length of hospital stay and the percentage of subjects who were administered the randomized drugs (page 625) . It was also found that there was no difference between the severity of violent outbursts for the three drugs (these findings are in association with the primary measures of aggression for the MOAS). Medication is not the only way to treat people with schizoaffective disorder. Community groups are also able to provide assistance to those debilitated by this disorder and educate others on the subject of this disease. Of course, the treatment is only effective if the patient taking them is consistent in their regimen..