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Towards a Name Change: Should We Rename Schizophrenia?
In this Quick Take today, I am going to do something slightly different compared to my usual review of a clinical psychopharmacology trial. We’re going to discuss and think through an editorial that poses the question if schizophrenia ought to be renamed. The editorial was published in the European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience. The first author was Stefan Leucht, a German psychiatrist working in Munich who was joined for this paper by an international group of psychiatrists.
I think this question is intellectually interesting and it also matters for your clinical work as you may have struggled how to introduce the term schizophrenia to your patients and particularly when or even if to use it in your younger patients.
Operating Assumptions About Validity
Let me preface my comments. For the purposes of our discussion today, I am not going to
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