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Models of Madness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Miriam Siegler  and
Humphry Osmond
Miriam Siegler
Affiliation:
Experimental Sociology
Humphry Osmond
Affiliation:
Bureau of Research in Neurology and Psychiatry, New Jersey Neuro-Psychiatric Institute, Princeton, New Jersey
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Schizophrenia is disputed territory. Thus, the numerous theories put forth to explain it are of all sorts: biochemical, genetic, religious, psychoanalytic, sociological, crosscultural, interactional, legal, moral, and so forth. These theories resemble, in a curious way, the productions of the schizophrenic patients on whose behalf they are constructed; they tend to be self-involved, and while they often display much internal consistency, they lack any comprehensible relation to each other.

Type
Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 112 , Issue 493 , December 1966 , pp. 1193 - 1203
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1966 

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