Schizophrenia as a diagnosis is only around one hundred years old. However, over that time period there have been drastic changes in whom the diagnosis is applied to and how it is used. How did a diagnosis that originally carried connotations of creative eccentricity instead become associated with aggression and violence?

Please join us for a presentation by an Assistant Professor of Clinical Medical Psychology at Columbia University to learn about the brief, but troubled history of schizophrenia. We will discuss how and why the diagnosis has been applied unevenly, the role of race in diagnosis, and the implications for how individuals are treated. Examining this history is crucial to both understanding our present-day mental health system and to destigmatizing an often-misunderstood condition.

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