Six Myths about Schizophrenia: A Paradigm Well Beyond Its Use-By Date?
Six Myths about Schizophrenia: A Paradigm Well Beyond Its Use-By Date?
The target of this chapter is a set of six commonly held assumptions in the biomedical approach to schizophrenia, a highly regarded view in mainstream American psychiatry. A careful examination of the available research literature reveals that these widely accepted assumptions are, at best, questionable and, in many cases, refuted by empirical data. In this chapter I argue that the endurance of the biomedical schizophrenia concept in the face of mounting evidence of its inadequacy is a testament to the power that scientific paradigms hold over the minds of researchers, and of the failure of the normal process of empirical refutation that ensues.
Keywords: Schizophrenia, biomedical model, myth, scientific paradigms, processes of empirical refutation
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