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The Image of a Troubled Mind

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Can insanity be measured? The diagnosis of schizophrenia, the mental illness that most closely resembles the stereotype of insanity, is beset by two major difficulties. We do not know what causes the Illness, and there Is still uncertainty over the physical symptoms that characterise it.
Geoff Watts examines the reliability of present techniques used for assessing schizophrenics. and considers recent brain research which may make possible more exact methods of detecting the Illness. Contributions from PROFESSOR JOHN WING
PROFESSOR ROBERT KENDALL
PROFESSOR ROBERT BLUGLASS. PROFESSOR JOHN COOPER. DR TIM CROW and DR GARETH JONES
Producer JULIAN BROWN

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Geoff Watts
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Professor Robert Kendall
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Professor Robert Bluglass.
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Professor John Cooper.
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Dr Tim Crow
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Dr Gareth Jones
Producer:
Julian Brown

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