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To the Editor: In his review of my book, Experiences of Schizophrenia (June 23 issue),¹ Lewis misquotes me as saying that schizophrenia is a "metatheory." What I said was, "I should like to propose as an alternative to monistic forms of thinking... a supraordinate or metatheoretical structure or viewpoint that respects pluralism in the human sciences." My point is that it is impoverishing to try to reduce the complex phenomenon we call schizophrenia to a single explanation, whether that explanation involves psychological meanings or neuroscientific networks and transmitters.² We need the contributions of all the human sciences, and I have . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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