We do not know with any of these neuropsychiatric disorders what the ultimate basis is. Let's say you could find that too much of protein X was involved in schizophrenia. Would you then know what schizophrenia is? You would not.
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After a century of studying schizophrenia, the cause of the disorder remains unknown.
No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious.
I was diagnosed with everything from schizophrenia to multiple personality disorder.
Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy.
Even in my first analysis of a depressive psychosis, I was immediately struck by its structural similarity with obsessional neurosis.
We need to ask whether, in the long term, some individuals with a history of psychosis may do better off medication.
The ever quickening advances of science made possible by the success of the Human Genome Project will also soon let us see the essences of mental disease. Only after we understand them at the genetic level can we rationally seek out appropriate therapies for such illnesses as schizophrenia and bipolar disease.
I've never been to a psychiatrist so have never gotten to the point where I could be formally diagnosed with any disorder. But I definitely have anxiety.
There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia', but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event.
Please hear this: There are not 'schizophrenics.' There are people with schizophrenia.