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Perceptual Defect and Role Handicap: Missing Links in Explaining the Aetiology of Schizophrenia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Ruth V. Kirk
Ruth V. Kirk*
Affiliation:
Children's Aid Society of Waterloo County; Sociological Research Laboratory, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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The immense literature on schizophrenia abounds in discoveries of single associations between the symptoms of the disease and certain other factors. Braithwaite (1960) says in speaking about “science like psychology and the social sciences which make great use of tendency statements… that to assert an isolated tendency statement is to say very little”. Such isolated statements in themselves are not explanations. A theory, on the other hand, interprets information; it explains.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 114 , Issue 517 , December 1968 , pp. 1509 - 1521
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1968 

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