Schizophrenia

Mary Boyle is Professor of Clinical Psychology, and Head of the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at the University of East London. She has worked as an NHS Clinical Psychologist and her previous publications include the first edition of Schizophrenia: A Scientific Delusion? (1990) and Rethinking Abortion: Psychology, Gender, Power and Law (1997).

'This book presents arguments so profound that you (the reader) will never be able to think of "schizophrenia" in the same way; it may even help you stop thinking about it at all.' - Tony Lavender, Director. Salomans Centre for Applied Social & Psychological Development 'This is a marvellous piece of scholarship. Boyle's analysis is relentless, exceedingly informative, and will undoubtedly be disturbing to all that find comfort in fuzzy thinking, conventional wisdom and unexamined evidence.' - Stuart A. Kirk, Professor and Marjorie Crump Chair, School of Public Policy and Social Research, University of California

• Chapter 1 Evaluating the validity of ‘schizophrenia’; Chapter 2 The background; Chapter 3 The necessary conditions for inferring schizophrenia; Chapter 4 The official correspondence rules for inferring schizophrenia; Chapter 5 The official correspondence rules for inferring schizophrenia; Chapter 6 Genetic research; Chapter 7 Supporting and maintaining ‘schizophrenia’; Chapter 8 Living without ‘schizophrenia’;