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Language Behavior in Schizophrenia

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One of the major difficulties confronting any attempt to analyze the behavioral phenomena that characterize schizophrenia is the problem of dealing with such a broad range of complex behaviors as though they were similar. We must begin by recognizing that the term schizophrenia refers to a group of disorders with common features but a wide range of behavioral differences rather than to a single disease entity with a well-defined series of symptoms. There is even some justification for questioning whether the numerous and varied manifestations currently labeled schizophrenia in the aggregate should not be considered distinct syndromes.

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Rieber, R.W., Vetter, H.J. (1995). Language Behavior in Schizophrenia. In: The Psychopathology of Language and Cognition. Cognition and Language. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1433-0_6

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