NATURE AND NURTURE OF SCHIZOPHRENIA

Nature and Nurture of schizophrenia

Nature and Nurture explanations of Schizophrenia

Introduction

Schizophrenia, also sometimes called split personality disorder, is a chronic, severe, debilitating mental illness that affects about 1% of the population, corresponding to more than 2 million people in the United States alone. Other statistics about schizophrenia include that it affects men about one and a half times more commonly than women. It is one of the psychotic mental disorders and is characterized by symptoms of thought, behavior, and social problems. The thought problems associated with schizophrenia are described as psychosis, in that person's thinking is ...