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BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS AND THE TREATMENT OF SCHIZOPHRENIA: AN ALTERNATIVE TO WONG'S (2006) VIEW OF THE POLITICAL ECONOMY
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Behavior and Social Issues
- Article date:
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October 1, 2007
- Author:
- Cautilli, Joseph
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Copyright informationCopyright Walden Fellowship, Inc. Fall 2007. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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The history of behavior analysis and schizophrenia is a very long and interesting one (Wong, 2006). In addition, the corresponding influence and power of biological psychiatry is also interesting as pointed out by Wyatt and Midkiff (2006). When studied as a behavioral problem, schizophrenia is debilitating. Developmentally, schizophrenia typically begins in early adult life and tends to persist through the remainder of the life span. Prominent behavioral excesses and deficits associated with schizophrenia include hallucinations, delusions, disorders of thinking, blunted affect, anhedonia, apathy, and impairment of attention. People with schizophrenia have been described as failing to learn ...