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A Clinical Guide for the Treatment of Schizophrenia (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1989)
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A Clinical Guide for the Treatment of Schizophrenia (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1989)
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Research on the nature and treatment of schizophrenia has undergone
a revival and metamorphosis in the last decade. For a long while,
the field had been moribund, weighed down by an unreliable
diagnostic system, pessi mism about the possibility of new
discoveries, and a dearth of research funds. A number of factors
have seemingly coalesced to change this situa tion, with the result
that the field is now alive with excitement and optimism. Four
factors seem to have played important roles in the resurgence of
interest. First, prior to the publication of DSM-III in 1980 there
was no reliable diagnostic system for the disorder. Previous
definitions were overly general and imprecise. Consequently, the
label "schizophrenia" applied to a very heterogeneous group of
severely disturhed patients. It was rarely clear whether two
investigators had studied comparable samples, making it im possible
to determine if (flew findings were generalizahle or if failures to
replicate were due to the unreliahility of the results or the fact
that the investigators had studied different disorders. DSM-III has
not totally re solved this problem, but it has allowed scientists
to reliably identify a much more homogeneous group. As a result, it
is now possible to integrate the results of different studies,
making it much more likely that we can make important advances. The
second important factor was the development of new technologies
that promised to help uncover the nature and etiology of the
disorder."
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