Wednesday, 11 May 2011

The syndrome of schizophrenia and the pathologisation

People have probably written books on this shit.

The syndrome or the thing which is schizophrenia is a hard concept to grasp and poorly explained in texts. I am afraid I can do little better.

The operational cluster of symptoms is an extraordinary leap in pseudoscience however it doesn't describe the 'disease'. It's the clinical instruments which do that and it's here where people can be more elucidated in what's actually being pathologised.

For a start, it's not just delusions and hallucinations.

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