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Rethinking ‘schizophrenia’

Dissecting psychosis

Richard Bentall explains why the time has come for a total rethink of the concept of ‘schizophrenia’

schizophrenia, heritability, environmental effects

Schizophrenia has been a central concept in psychiatry for more than a century, and the diagnosis is widely used in clinical practice today. The condition is thought of as belonging within a wider group of psychotic disorders (including schizoaffective disorder, delusional disorder, bipolar disorder) in which an individual can be said to, in some sense, ‘lose touch with reality’.

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