A Critical History of Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia was 20th century psychiatry's arch concept of madness. Yet for most of that century it was both problematic and contentious. This history explores schizophrenia's historic instability via themes such as symptoms, definition, classification and anti-psychiatry. In doing so, it opens up new ways of understanding 20th century madness.

Schizophrenia was 20th century psychiatry's arch concept of madness. Yet for most of that century it was both problematic and contentious. This history explores schizophrenia's historic instability via themes such as symptoms, definition, classification and anti-psychiatry. In doing so, it opens up new ways of understanding 20th century madness.

Introduction

1. Schizodia: The Lexicon

2. The Split Personality

3. Definitions of Schizophrenia

4. Catatonia: Faces in the Fire

5. Chasing the Phantom: Classification

6. Myth and Forgetting: Bleuler's Four As

7. Social Prejudice

8. Contesting Schizophrenia?

9. Manufacturing Consensus in North America

10. 20th Century Schizophrenia

Epilogue: Consider Nijinsky

Appendix A: Goodbye to Hebephrenia