Schizophrenia Bulletin Advance Access originally published online on May 17, 2006
Schizophrenia Bulletin 2006 32(3):428-429; doi:10.1093/schbul/sbj081
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At Issue: Is Natural Selection Rendering Schizophrenia Less Severe?
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It is unlikely that a collection of articles on recovery in schizophrenia would have been published in Kraepelin's time. For him the hallmark of the disorder was deterioration and incurability for all but a few. Yet, as Bellack1 notes in this issue, several relatively recent outcome studies show recoveries in schizophrenia that would not have been expected a century ago. While we clearly applaud this development, we should perhaps reflect on the differences between schizophrenia then and now that make recovery a viable and sometimes attainable goal.
Has schizophrenia become a milder disorder over the
1To whom correspondence should be addressed; e-mail: thomas.mcglashan@yale.edu.
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