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Developing Schizophrenia

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Neuroscience and schizophrenia are densely entangled and mutually supporting, such that a critical evaluation of schizophrenia is, effectively, an evaluation of applied aspects of contemporary neuroscience. In this chapter, I first present a critical historical account of the development of schizophrenia. This is followed by an overview of current issues and debates, and a summary of possible future research directions. I then identify a range of extant research strategies which already undercut or exceed this diagnosis. I conclude that the example of schizophrenia functions more generally to illustrate how neuroscience need not be reliant upon poorly supported psychiatric concepts of mental illness.

This chapter reproduces material from a paper originally published in Theory & Psychology 26(5): 607–619 (2016). Permission to re-print this material is gratefully acknowledged.

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    John Cromby

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  4. Department of Anthropology, Laval University, Québec, Canada

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Cromby, J. (2018). Developing Schizophrenia. In: Meloni, M., Cromby, J., Fitzgerald, D., Lloyd, S. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Biology and Society. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-52879-7_20

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