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‘The Schizophrenias as Nervous Types' Revisited

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Gordon Claridge
Gordon Claridge*
Affiliation:
University of Oxford, Department of Experimental Psychology, South Parks Road, Oxford OXI 3UD
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Abstract

In 1972 the author proposed that schizophrenia represents an aberration of central nervous processes that underlie cognitive and personality characteristics which can be observed in many healthy people. The present paper brings the evidence for that theory up to date and concludes that over the past 15 years it has received considerable empirical support. The way in which the theory confronts the question of whether or not schizophrenia is a disease is also clarified.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 151 , Issue 6 , December 1987 , pp. 735 - 743
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1987 

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