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I remember hearing this "new theory" years ago. Anyway, Read doesn't accept that schizophrenia is an illness - and even puts the word in quotation marks in the title of Chapter 1 of Models of Madness: Psychological, Social and Biological Approaches to Schizophrenia (2004). My daughter, who has schizophrenia, ran into people like Read while she was studying for her BA in psychology. When she wrote in an assignment that compulsory treatment with anti-psychotic medication is necessary in some cases of schizophrenia - remembering that only this had succeeded in bringing her out of psychosis - she was marked incorrect. Crazy! And no, she was not abused in any way as either a child or a young adult.