‘The Schizophrenias as Nervous Types' Revisited
- 1 December 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 151 (6) , 735-743
- https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.151.6.735
Abstract
In 1972 the author proposed that schizophrenia represents an aberration of central nervous processes that underlie cognitive and personality characteristics which can be observed in many healthy people. The present paper brings the evidence for that theory up to date and concludes that over the past 15 years it has received considerable empirical support. The way in which the theory confronts the question of whether or not schizophrenia is a disease is also clarified.This publication has 46 references indexed in Scilit:
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