No theory is more emblematic of the modern crisis in
psychopathology than the brain-disease model of schizophrenia. Theories that
posit neurological origins for schizophrenia ignore the significant percentage
of patients who display no brain abnormality or who recover without drugs.
Psycho-Bizarreness Theory (PBT), detailed in this article, as well as in a
recent book [1], is a new non-neurological theory of madness that views
schizophrenia and other bizarre behaviors, such as criminal insanity and
neurosis, as rational coping mechanisms. Certain people, in the face of
intolerable stress, will unconsciously adopt a bizarre behavior precisely
tailored to neutralize their stressor and to block stress-related thoughts.
Their brain abnormalities serve primarily as sources of stress, not of disease.
Thus, by abandoning the deterministic axiomatic assumption, common to all
theories of traditional theories of psychopathology, and adopting the idea that
madness is a rational coping mechanism, rather than a mental or neurological
disease, the new theory is able to integrate the seemingly incompatible data,
obtained by rival theories in this field, into one coherent theoretical system.
Author(s) Details:
Yacov Rofé
Interdisciplinary Department of
Social Sciences, Bar‐Ilan University, Ramat‐Gan, Israel.
Yochav Rofé
Interdisciplinary Department of Social Sciences, Bar‐Ilan University,
Ramat‐Gan, Israel.
Please see the link here: https://stm.bookpi.org/CPASSR-V1/article/view/15031
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