schizophrenia

is a social construction. There is no adequate reason to believe that the symptoms lumped under this label are manifestations of a single underlying disease.

Mary Boyle has argued that our belief in schizophrenia is socially constructed (Schizophrenia: A Scientific Delusion' 1990). Her claim is that there is no adequate reason to believe that the symptoms commonly lumped under this label are manifestations of a single underlying disease and, hence, that the search for its etiology by neurochemistry is doomed.' (

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