Reexamining Schizophrenia as a Brain Disease
Hearing Voices Movement Media Watch
For
over one hundred and fifty years, psychiatry has promoted the idea that
what is called schizophrenia is a progressive, deteriorative disease of
the brain, and that science is on the horizon of finally discovering
the biochemical nature of this debilitating mental disorder. From the
age of Kraepelin through the reign of Freud and now the neuroscience of
the new psychiatry, we have been promised that a test for schizophrenia
is right around the corner, a few years away, the next big breakthrough
in biological psychiatry. But we have been waiting for more than a
century. It is time to reevaluate the claim that schizophrenia is an
organic brain disease.
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