Biological Psychology
Has the schizophrenia label outlived its usefulness?
An alert student forwarded me a rather bizarre report from MSNBC about a discussion among British psychiatrists about the use of the label “schizophrenia.” According to these psychiatrists, schizophrenia “has no scientific validity, is imprecise and stigmatizing.” Labeling is always an issue in psychopathology. We have to have some agreement that Read more…