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Clinical detection of schizophrenia-prone individuals

Critical appraisal

Cognitive Research Unit, University Department of Psychiatry, Hvidovre Hospital, DK-2650 Hvidovre, Denmark (e-mail: jpa{at}cfs.ku.dk) and Danish National Research Foundation, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Correspondence: E-mail: jpa{at}cfs.ku.dk

Declaration of interest None.

Paper presented at the Third International Early Psychosis Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 2002.

Issues that undermine the early detection of schizophrenia include an inadequate grasp of the construct validity of the concept of schizophrenia, insufficient conceptualisation of psychosis and of the illness onset, and a general lack of a theoretical framework for psychopathology. Subjective experience is emphasised as a potentially promising domain for future research.