Schizophrenia: A Scientific Delusion?, first published in 1990, made a contribution to the debates on the concepts of schizophrenia and mental illness. These concepts remain both influential and controversial and this new updated second edition provides a critical analysis of the debates during the 1990s. As well as providing updated versions of the historical and scientific arguments against the concept of schizophrenia which formed the basis of the first edition, Boyle covers new material, including: the development of DSM-IV's version of schizophrenia analysis of social, psychological and...