Schizophrenia is a severe mental disease that effects thousands of Americans, or only one percent of the population. Schizophrenia is defined as a disorder characterized by a range of cognitive and emotional dysfunction involving disturbances in content of thought, perceptions, language and communication skills, fluency of thought and speech, attention span, and interpersonal functioning. Schizophrenia was not always known as this. In the late 1800’s a French physician by the name of Benedict Morel first …showed first 75 words of 1251 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1251 total…to want to overcome the disease. This way the person diagnosed with this can live a semi-normal or fully normal and functional life. References Abnormal Psychology Third Edition (Clinical Perspectives on Psychological Disorders): Halgin, Richard P. and Whitbourne, Susan Krauss; University of Massachusetts of Amherst: 1997 McGraw Hill Co. British Medical Journal (Treatment of schizophrenia): McGrath, John, 1999, Issue: Oct 16, 1999 Schizophrenia: http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?eu=67849 FDA Consumer (Real Lives, Imaginary Terror): Paltak, Margie, Sept-Oct 1997