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Schizophrenia

Part of the book series: Critical Issues in Psychiatry ((CIPS))

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Treatment for schizophrenia has never been satisfactory, and this is still true today even though the clinician can now draw upon a number of available treatment methods. Nonetheless, very significant progress has been accomplished during the middle third of the twentieth Century, and the degree of hopelessness and therapeutic nihilism previously associated with the diagnosis of schizophrenia is no longer warranted.

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  1. Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

    John S. Strauss M.D.

  2. Maryland Psychiatric Research Center, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

    William T. Carpenter Jr. M.D.

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Strauss, J.S., Carpenter, W.T. (1981). Treatments. In: Schizophrenia. Critical Issues in Psychiatry. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0327-3_10

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