Reminder: Schizophrenia did not exist before the invention of the telephone

[slop slinger]

Before the telephone, it was not possible for the majority of humanity to conceptualize the idea that voices could be separated from their sources. It was limited to mystics, oracles, and prophets.

With the telephone, this became a quotidian experience. This epistemic shift eventually became the source of a new psychiatric diagnosis: schizophrenia.

[brocode]

u can say that for a lot of other diseases. 
u mean it wasnt diagnosed and wasnt an identified disease.

just because people didnt acknowledge a disease does not mean it didnt exist.

on this:

Before the telephone, it was not possible for the majority of humanity to conceptualize the idea that voices could be separated from their sources. It was limited to mystics, oracles, and prophets.

they were clearly schizos lets get real, muh god told me in my dreams or in my cave that xyz should happen