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Mediating Processes in Schizophrenia

Towards a New Dynamic Psychiatry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 August 2018

John S. Strauss
John S. Strauss*
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Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven
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To paraphrase Kant, theory without data is mere intellectual play, but data without theory are blind. “Mediating Processes in Schizophrenia” is a topic demanding theory as well as data. Although the topic may seem limited in scope, it actually probes the causes of schizophrenia. The causes involved in ‘mediating processes’, however, are not the usually considered primary or distal causes of schizophrenia, such as genetics or early environment. Instead they are the more proximal causes – mechanisms that are closer to illness onset, exacerbation, or improvement. It is amazing how little attention is paid to this kind of cause.

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I. Introduction: Unfolding of the Area
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 155 , Issue S5: Schizophrenia as a Systems Disorder: The Relevance of Mediating Processes for Theory and Therapy , July 1989 , pp. 22 - 28
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Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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