In Pursuit of “Schizophrenia” Reflections on “Imprecision” in Scientific and Professional Thought and Practice

Anthony Marsella

Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D., DHC, is Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychology, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii. In the course of his academic career at UH, he served as Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs; Field Director, World Health Organization Center for Study of Severe Mental Disorders; Director of Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance, and Director of Clinical Training. Dr. Marsella has published 21 books and more than 350 journal articles, book chapters, technical reports, and socio-political commentaries, including two recent volumes on poetry, essays, short stories. He is the founding editor of Springer-Nature Publishing Company’s International and Cultural Psychology Book Series which helped define cultural psychology’s critical role in revolutionizing theory, thought, and practice in psychology and psychiatry. He is a relentless advocate for non-violence, anti-war, and social and community activism Dr. Marsella is best known as a pioneer leader in the study of ethnocultural and racial biases, injustice, and abuses in mental health fields contending all psychologies are indigenous to the place and time of their development. He is the recipient of numerous teaching, research, and professional awards, grants, and fellowships, including an honorary Doctoris Honoris Causas (DHC), from the University of Copenhagen. He has served as a visiting professor in Australia, China, India, Korea, and the Philippines, and as a Visiting Lecturer at more than 40 national and international universities In recent years, he has pursued writing in areas of peace, justice, and personal meaning.