2016
DOI: 10.1177/0959354316661430
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Developing schizophrenia

Abstract: Neuroscience and schizophrenia are densely entangled and mutually supporting, such that a critical evaluation of schizophrenia is, effectively, an evaluation of applied aspects of contemporary neuroscience. A critical historical account of the development of schizophrenia is therefore followed by an overview of current issues and debates. A summary of possible future research directions then identifies a range of extant research strategies which already undercut or exceed this diagnosis. It is concluded that t… Show more

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“…Alongside phenomenology, several discourses have painted a portrait of schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders as non-enigmatic and psychologically understandable (see Cromby, 2016; Strauss, 2011, 2014). A 2014 task force report by the British Psychological Society (BPS, 2014) called Understanding Psychosis and Schizophrenia concluded that there is no threshold or clear division between psychosis and other human thoughts, feelings, and behaviors; in fact, according to the report, psychosis can be both comprehended and addressed in the same way as other psychosocial challenges such as sadness, nervousness, fear, and shyness.…”
Section: Other Alternativesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Alongside phenomenology, several discourses have painted a portrait of schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders as non-enigmatic and psychologically understandable (see Cromby, 2016; Strauss, 2011, 2014). A 2014 task force report by the British Psychological Society (BPS, 2014) called Understanding Psychosis and Schizophrenia concluded that there is no threshold or clear division between psychosis and other human thoughts, feelings, and behaviors; in fact, according to the report, psychosis can be both comprehended and addressed in the same way as other psychosocial challenges such as sadness, nervousness, fear, and shyness.…”
Section: Other Alternativesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Psychologists are in continuous danger of engaging in simplistic neuroreductionism. The concomitant fear of neuroreductionism should, however, not result in a retreat from neuroscience since, as John Cromby (2016) demonstrates in this issue, the latter can render traditional psychiatric categories such as schizophrenia inadequate and therefore unsustainable and antiquated. Similarly, the deepening understanding of the limits of genetics has also undermined simplistic determinist claims giving rise to new fields such as epigenetics (Rose & Abi-Rached, 2013).…”
Section: Neuro/sciencementioning
confidence: 99%
“…There is a sense within the wider social sciences community that critical realist approaches are useful because they allow an analysis that recognizes not only the constructive power of language but also the material, embodied, and institutional factors that contain what is possible to say (see, for example, Cromby, 2016;Cromby & Harper, 2009;Houston, 2010;Pocock, 2015). For our research, it meant that we could make a connection between our participants' talk and their lives, exploring how the mothers and young people in these studies make sense of their mental health and well-being within the context of the complex material and discursive contexts in which they find themselves.…”
Section: Wider Implications and Applicationsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In part, these challenges occur because mental health and illness are contested terms, and used to represent a range of concepts from psychological states to dimensions of health (Lofgren, Hewitt, & das Nair, 2015). In turn, these different concepts are underpinned by different epistemological and ontological frameworks, such as medical naturalism and social constructionism (Cromby, 2016). Medical naturalism (or psychiatric positivism/realism) holds the premise that mental illness has an external reality that can be subsequently identified by experts, while social constructionists argue that we can only know the world via the ways we represent it (Pilgrim, 2014; Roberts, 2014).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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