Schizophrenia label to go, say doctors.

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‘Schizophrenia’ should be dropped, experts say British psychiatrists say label is stigmatizing and meaningless Updated: 11:35 a.m. ET Oct. 9, 2006 LONDON - Mental health experts called on Monday for the term schizophrenia to be dropped, saying it has no scientific validity, is imprecise and stigmatizing. “It is a harmful concept,” said Marius Romme, a visiting professor of social psychiatry

at the University of Central England in Birmingham. He added that symptoms such as delusions, hearing voices and hallucinations are not the results of the illness but may be reactions to traumatic and troubling events in life. Read entire article at: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15196598/ "Our ideal is not the spirituality that withdraws from life but the conquest of life by the power of the spirit." - Aurobindo.

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