Carrol Cox wrote:
> Sufferers from schizophrenia are people, not automobiles off an assembly
> line that can be taken to the shop. Even were one to get his/her schizophrenia
> under complete control past episodes would be part of the history which
> he/she is.
and later endorsed the following cl
Brad De Long wrote:
> [SNIP]
> >
> >Schizophrenic people would generally like not to be schizophrenic (you ask
The phrase "schizophrenic people" is itself objectionable. Just as tubercular
people or influenza people would be silly and/or (under some cultural
contexts) offensive. And since a nu
The
>vast majority of people understand 'schizophrenia' as 'split personality',
Say, rather, that the colloquial English definition of the word
"schizophrenia"--as split personality or cognitive dissonance or a
failure to recognize that beliefs X and Y cannot both be true--has
nothing to do
