SCHIZOFRENIA ÎNTRE PATOLOGIE ȘI MASS-MEDIA
Schizophrenia between pathology and mass media

Summary/Abstract: The article offers a surface look at the cognitive deficit in schizophrenia, an element of growing importance in the overall perception of the disorder from a clinical standpoint, and the way that the schizophrenic patient is portrayed in contemporary media. As the medical community’s understanding of schizophrenia deepens, the loss of cognitive function, particularly working memory, becomes an increasingly relevant aspect of the schizophrenic patient’s condition, especially considering their constantly decreasing prospects of social integration of such patients, many of whom cannot be committed in specialized care institutions for an extended duration of time. As a result, these patients frequently ”slip through the cracks” of society’s safety net, thus generating a vicious cycle of pathological manifestations and social alienation, oftentimes associated with biases, both positive and negative, that stem from cultural or media sources. Considering also the stigma associated with mental illness, which is briefly presented here, and the intrinsic, baseline difficulties associated with schizophrenia, cognitive deficit is beginning to take its place among the key elements associated with this particular disorder.

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