In “The Biology of Schizophrenia,” the author goes into saying that there is a reason we are susceptible to schizophrenia and that it is our prolonged childhood. “Obviously, the fact that immaturity are relatively weak in man as compared with those of lower animals,” (Hoskins, 1946, p. 96). The book goes on to say that childhood and schizophrenia have many similarities and that schizophrenia can be a form of regression and reaction to a situation that the subject can do when they do not have the mental tools to deal with the situation. Our design to have long gestation and long childhoods can influence our minds even to when we are adults, and when one is susceptible to the disease they can draw tendencies and traits from their prolong childhood since it is long enough that the subjects are able to remember. Not to mention the prolong childhood can have an increase chance off error since it last longer than an animal’s childhood which are usually short. This analysis can drag into question the idea that schizophrenia maybe actually just the individual failing to mature properly (Hoskins, 1946, p. 97). Because it takes a longer time to mature we face a tradeoff which is the possibility of developing
In “The Biology of Schizophrenia,” the author goes into saying that there is a reason we are susceptible to schizophrenia and that it is our prolonged childhood. “Obviously, the fact that immaturity are relatively weak in man as compared with those of lower animals,” (Hoskins, 1946, p. 96). The book goes on to say that childhood and schizophrenia have many similarities and that schizophrenia can be a form of regression and reaction to a situation that the subject can do when they do not have the mental tools to deal with the situation. Our design to have long gestation and long childhoods can influence our minds even to when we are adults, and when one is susceptible to the disease they can draw tendencies and traits from their prolong childhood since it is long enough that the subjects are able to remember. Not to mention the prolong childhood can have an increase chance off error since it last longer than an animal’s childhood which are usually short. This analysis can drag into question the idea that schizophrenia maybe actually just the individual failing to mature properly (Hoskins, 1946, p. 97). Because it takes a longer time to mature we face a tradeoff which is the possibility of developing