Mary Boyle

Schizophrenia (eBook, PDF)

A Scientific Delusion?

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Produktbeschreibung

The idea of "schizophrenia" as a disease has become profoundly influential both within the medical profession and amongst the general public. So strong is this idea that those who criticize it are apt to be dismissed as being either ignorant of the latest research or indifferent to the fate of the "mentally ill". This book challenges such ideas by offering a detailed critique of the origins and development of the concept and diagnosis of schizophrenia. Mary Boyle shows how such diagnoses did and still do rely on opinion rather than evidence, how they were characterized by conceptual confusion, and how subsequent research has been misrepresented. She therefore questions the validity of schizophrenia as illness, but emphasizes thatm this is not to deny the existence of bizarre behaviour. She offers alternative interpretations of such behaviour, and points out the need to ask searching questions about the labelling of some behaviour as symptomatic of mental illness. By focusing not on schizophrenics, but on those who diagnose schizophrenia, this book will undoubtedly attract some criticism and debate. Yet her approach allows the author to question traditional interpretations of bizarre behaviour, and to make more central the social and ethical issues which surround it.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000443066
• Artikelnr.: 62733826

Autorenporträt

Mary Boyle is Professor of Clinical Psychology, and Head of the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at the University of East London. She has worked as an NHS Clinical Psychologist and her previous publications include the first edition of Schizophrenia: A Scientific Delusion? (1990) and Rethinking Abortion: Psychology, Gender, Power and Law (1997).

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Evaluating the validity of 'schizophrenia'
Chapter 2 The background
Chapter 3 The necessary conditions for inferring schizophrenia
Chapter 4 The official correspondence rules for inferring schizophrenia
Chapter 5 The official correspondence rules for inferring schizophrenia
Chapter 6 Genetic research
Chapter 7 Supporting and maintaining 'schizophrenia'
Chapter 8 Living without 'schizophrenia'