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What's wrong with the concept of schizophrenia?
Moreover, there's compelling evidence to suggest that the concept of "schizophrenia" doesn't stand up scientifically, operating instead as a catch-all for a variety of distinct and frequently unrelated experiences.
Historically, poor outcome has often been considered to be an integral part of the concept of schizophrenia, though in recent times this has been challenged by many cross-cultural studies.
Our society is given extraordinarily pessimistic messages about 'schizophrenia' (even though, as I discuss in my TED Book, the concept of schizophrenia as a valid entity is very problematic and contested) and in turn it can fill people with an overwhelming amount of hopelessness about themselves.
He extended his early concept of schizophrenia to a theory of personality, arguing that both normal and abnormal personalities represent enduring patterns of interpersonal relationships, thus giving the environment, in particular the human social environment, the major role in personality development.
Moreover, this concept provides a conceptual link between psychopathological observations and the dysconnection concept of schizophrenia (Weinberger and Lipska, 1995).
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Hence, studies including patients with diagnoses that are not equivalent to the criteria listed above, primarily relating to the historical concept of 'Childhood Schizophrenia,' are excluded.
Up until the 1950s, the concepts of childhood schizophrenia and autism were used to reframe central issues in child development based on the idea of infantile hallucination.
History of the Concept of Disconnectivity in Schizophrenia.
In 1985 Crow suggested a dichotomic concept for the diagnosis of schizophrenia by dividing schizophrenic disorders into type I- and type II-schizophrenia according to the prevalence of either positive or negative symptoms [ 1].
The concept of autism was coined in 1911 by the German psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler to describe a symptom of the most severe cases of schizophrenia, a concept he had also created.
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