Blindness and schizophrenia

The implications of both blindness and schizophrenia are discussed with regard to the etiology and treatment of schizophrenia. The ward charts of hospitalized patients in a section for the blind of a state psychiatric hospital were examined to determine if there were any patients who were both blind and had schizophrenia. It was found that none of the patients diagnosed as schizophrenic was totally blind on admission. Two patients diagnosed as schizophrenic were partially blind due to loss of the left eye sustained in a fight and iritis of the right eye respectively.