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Our Most Troubling Madness: Case Studies in Schizophrenia across Cultures Edited by T. M. Luhrmann and Jocelyn Marrow. University of California Press. 2016. £58.95 (hb), £24.95 (pb). 304 pp. ISBN 9780520291089 (hb), 9780520291096 (pb)
Thomas Insel (2013) defined schizophrenia as ‘a collection of signs and symptoms of unknown aetiology, predominantly defined by observed signs of psychosis’ but this concise definition hardly grasps the human cost, experiences and consequences of psychosis. Quite unremarkably, the ICD-10 codes schizophrenia as F.20 that aids communication among mental health practitioners but inadvertently strips off the human context of...