Dear Scott,
Thanks for sharing your views and responding critically to the Kristeva
quotes, I was hoping that would happen.
But the only practical instruction Kristeva gives psychiatrists in this book
is to listen more closely to their patients, and for the life of me I can't
see much wrong with that.
No, patients are not chips off the same block, and did I say they were? I
don't think any one book can be an instruction manual for a problem as vast
and difficult as this, but I do think that we must gather clues wherever we
can. And I don't take Kristeva's book any more seriously than I would a good
work of fiction in this regard.
For the record, 'schizophrenia' has long been considered an 'umbrella term'
which covers a variety of disorders, including schizoaffective disorder,
which includes both depressive and psychotic elements, and is incidentally
what I was diagnosed with some years ago.
Cheers,
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