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John
As I remember it, schizophrenia is being speculated in the story by a character who likely wouldn't get it right. The guy is a junky, not a psychiatrist.
Nathan
Yes, it bothered me too. Schizophrenia involves delusions and hallucinations. But he uses it in this book to mean more like a multiple personality disorder. And I'm not even sure to what degree that is portrayed here either, but it's clear that magic is involved anyway.
Corey
Yes. Schizophrenia and DID are completely different things (and even if he did call it "multiple personality disorder" as it was back then, still not good portrayal), but to be fair it was written in the 1980's. He also portrayed deafness in an inaccurate way in The Stand, so you just have to gloss over it.
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