Should schizophrenia be renamed? Patients' preferences and what anti-stigma campaigns may learn from the history of the term "Black" in the United States.
BACKGROUND The diagnostic term schizophrenia is among the most stigmatizing labels in psychology and medicine. Public anti-stigma campaigns and efforts to replace the term with less pejorative terms have yielded mixed results. Importantly, patients' own preferences regarding diagnostic labels have been insufficiently e...