As we blog on, the British Journal of Psychiatry redeems itself. Its second issue for 2012 provides in editorial and original research papers a peek into a future that puts aside descriptive diagnosis for solutions that connect mental states to...
Schizophrenia produces the epitome of madness. It generates wild ideas of contact with the metaphysical and supernatural, compelling hallucinations and utter strangeness, which made it seem to pre-modern societies divine or satanic possession. It deranges meme production (see “The Atoms...