{Schizophrenia and Race (1)}[14th March 1989]

[Redbook6:110)][19890314:1445]{Schizophrenia and Race (1)}[14th March 1989]

19890314.1445

On a TV programme last night,* studies were said to show that Afro-Caribbean immigrants and/or their descendants were ten times more likely to develop schizophrenia than the World’s population in general (20 in 10,000, against 2 in 10,000). Critics attacked the basis of these studies.

Very broadly, and without committing myself to a cultural or racial basis for this, and bearing in mind the potential independence and actual uniqueness of every Individual, I might speculate as follows:

[Text extracted from ms diagram reproduced above:]

			C
	R		|		S
		Negro?**		Chinese?
G~		–	+	–		M~
		Indian?		European?
	J		|		U
			A~

But such an analysis is of limited value, as any attempt to apply it runs up against numerous exceptions.

*19890313.2010ff BBC1, Horizon

**[See [Redbook4:232][19871215:2232d]{Schizophrenia (2) [continued (4)]}[15th December 1987]]

[& with sincere apologies to anyone offended by the term, which may have been thought to have a wider meaning than Afro-Caribbean]

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