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The Syndrome of Schizophrenia: Unresolved Questions and Opportunities for Research

The Fifty-second Maudsley Lecture, delivered before the Royal College of Psychiatrists in London, 17 November, 1978

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Seymour S. Kety  and
Seymour S. Kety
Seymour S. Kety
Affiliation:
Harvard University, Mailman Research Center, McLean Hospital, Belmont, Massachusetts
Seymour S. Kety
Affiliation:
Harvard University, Mailman Research Center, McLean Hospital, Belmont, Massachusetts
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The concept of mental illness which Henry Maudsley developed and espoused has a special significance at this time. Psychiatry appears to have entered a new phase in its evolution as a mental science, in which its dependence on both the biological and the psychosocial disciplines is recognized, in which clinical observations are made under carefully controlled conditions, and where hypotheses lead to research rather than conclusions. This maturation was encouraged and predicted by Henry Maudsley who, more than a century earlier, had synthesized from the knowledge of his time a prospectus of psychiatric progress which anticipates much of our present thinking, often in considerable detail and striking exactitude.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 136 , Issue 5 , May 1980 , pp. 421 - 436
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