From a psychological perspective, schizophrenia is not primarily a list of symptoms, but an experience of fragmentation of the self and of the relationship with reality. The person lives an inner world with its own logic and coherence — even if this does not coincide with the consensual reality of those around them.
In psychology, we frequently work with the idea of acceptance. Accepting a diagnosis of autism. Accepting cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease. Accepting an affective disorder or early trauma. But acceptance no longer means resignation. In the last two decades, science has made an unprecedented conceptual and technological leap: it has managed to create in the laboratory...