http://www.miller-mccune.com/health/making-sense-of-schizophrenia-research-3603/ Nationally Acclaimed Politics, Science and Culture Coverage Wed, 28 Dec 2011 18:00:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.miller-mccune.com/health/making-sense-of-schizophrenia-research-3603/#comment-476 Paul Baker Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:20:06 +0000 http://blog.miller-mccune.com.s72010.gridserver.com/2009/07/06/order-from-chaos-making-sense-of-schizophrenia-research/#comment-476 Conversely it could be because SZ is an unscientific and unproven concept, consider the following:# Schizophrenia is not a valid concept because it completely fails scientific tests# Therefore schizophrenia is not and never has been proven to be a brain disease.# The way in which people are diagnosed as having schizophrenia gives no consideration to the underlying reasons for the symptoms that people may be experiencing.# The way in which people are diagnosed as having schizophrenia neglects the very real relationships between the core symptoms (such as voices) and the individuals past experiences in life.# The relationships between the core symptoms are neglected, for instance the persons own explanations for their voices are not considered, neither are what the voices say, or why and when they arose.# The core symptoms do not represent expressions of psychopathology.# Learning to cope with the symptoms and with the problems at the heart of these symptoms are neglected by psychiatry.# People can recover from schizophrenia and most people who do so, manage this outside of psychiatry. Conversely it could be because SZ is an unscientific and unproven concept, consider the following:# Schizophrenia is not a valid concept because it completely fails scientific tests# Therefore schizophrenia is not and never has been proven to be a brain disease.# The way in which people are diagnosed as having schizophrenia gives no consideration to the underlying reasons for the symptoms that people may be experiencing.# The way in which people are diagnosed as having schizophrenia neglects the very real relationships between the core symptoms (such as voices) and the individuals past experiences in life.# The relationships between the core symptoms are neglected, for instance the persons own explanations for their voices are not considered, neither are what the voices say, or why and when they arose.# The core symptoms do not represent expressions of psychopathology.# Learning to cope with the symptoms and with the problems at the heart of these symptoms are neglected by psychiatry.# People can recover from schizophrenia and most people who do so, manage this outside of psychiatry.

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