ABSTRACT
A myriad of competing, conflicting, and contradictory theories and findings have arisen from nearly a century of medical, psychological, and socio-political endeavour towards an understanding of schizophrenia. Most reviews of this literature have not been able to resist the temptation to conclude in favour of one or more of these theories and in so doing dismiss potentially important and relevant findings related to those conditions currently held under the umbrella term 'schizophrenia'. No single theory of schizophrenia is advocated here. Indeed, it will be apparent that to do so would destroy the core of the present argument. The emphasis is deliberately placed on the uncritical appreciation of the biological findings. Where criticism of particular theories or findings is made, it is done so not with the aim of discrediting these theories but, simply to restrict the sometimes false attributions awarded to them.
