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A Neurophysiological Theory of Schizophrenia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

Frank Fish
Frank Fish*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Edinburgh
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In the psychiatric literature in English there is a tendency today to deprecate speculative neurophysiological theories of the “functional” psychiatric disorders, while little is done to halt the flood of far-fetched and untestable hypotheses of the “dynamic” psychopathologists. The present author believes that it is legitimate to postulate a neurophysiological basis for schizophrenia in the hope that those with a more adequate knowledge of neurophysiology will be obliged to re-examine the problem of schizophrenia more fruitfully. Conrad (1958, and Fish, 1960) has given a very interesting interpretation of acute schizophrenic symptoms, so that his approach to schizophrenia forms a very convenient starting point for further speculation. This worker's views will therefore now be presented in some detail before the present author's theories are discussed.

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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 107 , Issue 450 , September 1961 , pp. 828 - 838
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1961 

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