Psychopathology of the 21st Century: Application to Schizophrenia

Failure of the disease model of Schizophrenia during the 20th century

At the turn of the twentieth century, Kraepelin conceptualized the disease model of dementia praecox (schizophrenia) and his classification model was enshrined in Western psychiatry for more than a century [3]. The disease model of schizophrenia included three core symptoms (delusions, hallucinations and disorganized thoughts) that were included in all diagnostic systems because they were the most frequently reported by patients [4]. The inclusion of three different groups of symptoms into the disease model of schizophrenia goes against the tenet of the disease model of classification because two patients with totally different symptoms can have the same diagnosis.

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