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The pursuit of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder

17 January 2007

If you live in a Zambian village and are diagnosed with schizophrenia, you are a lot more likely to recover than a New Yorker. Some Londoners with the disease are being offered cash incentives to encourage them to continue taking the unpleasant drugs that are still the main treatment. And more than 10 per cent of “well” people in surveys worldwide admit to hearing voices at some time. Don’t worry, says Richard Bentall, contradiction and confusion are sometimes a good thing

THERE’s a revolution going on involving more than 150 million people from every part of the globe. If you hadn’t noticed, that’s hardly surprising because…

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