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Social networks and schizophrenia

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This article begins with an introduction to social networks research and its practical importance in the understanding and treatment of schizophrenia, and concludes with a consideration of the experience, the phenomenology, of schizophrenia, from a social network point of view.

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Beels, C.C. Social networks and schizophrenia. Psych Quart 51, 209–215 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01064743

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