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A psychosocial orientation to schizophrenic disorders.
The Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine
|May 1, 1985
Summary
American psychiatry has regressed by focusing on brain-based origins for disorders like schizophrenia, neglecting psychosocial therapies and misunderstanding human adaptation through language and culture.
Area of Science:
- Psychiatry
- Psychology
- Neuroscience
Background:
- American psychiatry has seen a regression in the latter half of the 20th century.
- This decline is linked to a focus on biological brain origins for psychiatric disorders.
- There's a resurgence of the view of schizophrenia as a chronic, incurable disease entity.