Q. What is ‘recovery’ for a patient with Schizophrenia?
Answer By: Jeffrey A. Lieberman, M.D.
Lawrence C. Kolb Professor and Chairman of Psychiatry, Columbia University, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
Lieber Chair for Schizophrenia Research
Director, New York State Psychiatric Institute
Psychiatrist-in-Chief, New York Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia University Medical Center
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
“They have an illness, they may continue to have some level of symptoms, but it’s not effecting them in a way that makes them impaired or disabled to any significant way, just like someone who suffers from diabetes, or hypertension or asthma …”
Video from March, 2010 - filmed at the 7th Annual Palm Beach Symposium