The problem with looking at studies on schizophrenia in the past or the history of schizophrenia is that for a long time, EVERYTHING was seen as schizophrenia. Bipolar with psychotic features? Schizophrenia. Dissociative identity disorder (multiple personalities)? Schizophrenia. PTSD? Schizophrenia. Autism? Childhood schizophrenia.

So it's hard to find examples of people who have recovered from schizophrenia because it takes time, and we're just figuring out what schizophrenia really is... Hell, the only other schizophrenic I knew in real life went back to the hospital recently and was diagnosed as bipolar...