We are calling for the label of schizophrenia to be abolished as a concept because it is unscientific, stigmatising, and does not address the root causes of serious mental distress.

The CASL campaign is driven by two central factors:

• The concept of schizophrenia is unscientific and has outlived any usefulness it may once have claimed.
• The label schizophrenia is extremely damaging to those to whom it is applied.

The idea that schizophrenia can viewed as a specific, genetically determined, biologically driven, brain disease has been based on bad science and social control since its inception.