Arieti begins his book stating that it is difficult to define schizophrenia. He asks if schizophrenia is an illness and answers in the negative, since the disorder is not understood in classic Virchowian criterion of cellular pathology.
In his book, Arieti starts by stating it’s challenging to specify schizophrenia. He questions whether schizophrenia constitutes a disease and concludes that it doesn’t align with Virchowian’s cellular pathology standard.