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Schizophrenia is an extremely disabling disorder, which presents with a wide range of disruptive symptoms and leads to a significant loss in ability to function independently. Its prognosis is generally poor and its course tends toward progressively more disabled functioning over time. Schizophrenia has been observed for more than 3000 years. In the time that the disorder was recognized, it had been attributed to various causes, including satanic possession. More recently, empirically based theories regarding schizophrenia began to develop.
Most diseases can be separated from one’s self and seen as foreign intruding entities. Schizophrenia is very poorly behaved in this respect. Colds, ulcers, flu, and cancer are things we get. Schizophrenic is something we are. It affects the things we most identify with as making us what we are.
If this weren’t problem enough, schiz comes on slow and comes on fast, stays a minute or days or years, can be heaven one moment, hell the next, enhance abilities and destroy them, back and forth several times a day and always weaving itself inextricably into what we call ourselves. It can transform only a small corner of our lives or turn the whole show upside down, always giving few if any clues as to when it came or when it left or what was us and what was schiz.
(M. Vonnegut, 1975, p. ix)
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McGuffin, P.W., Morrison, R.L. (1994). Schizophrenia. In: Van Hasselt, V.B., Hersen, M. (eds) Advanced Abnormal Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-0345-0_16
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