1st Edition

Language and Cognition in Schizophrenia (PLE: Psycholinguistics)

Edited By Steven Schwartz Copyright 1978
308 Pages
by Psychology Press

304 Pages
by Psychology Press

304 Pages
by Psychology Press

Originally published in 1978, the contributors to this volume, including the leading figures in experimental psychopathology, were largely concerned with deducing the behaviour of schizophrenics from general psychological theories of language, learning and cognition. Their emphasis on deduction reflected a modern reliance on laboratory experimentation, and, taken as a whole, the chapters cover... Read more

Contributors  Preface  1 Bertram D. Cohen Referent communication disturbances in schizophrenia  2 Kurt Salzinger, Stephanie Portnoy, and Richard S. Feldman Communicability deficit in schizophrenics resulting from a more general deficit  3 Soon D. Koh Remembering of verbal materials by schizophrenic young adults  4 Paul H. Blaney Schizophrenic thought disorder: why the lack of answers?  5 Thomas F. Oltmanns and John M. Neale Distractability in relation to other aspects of schizophrenic disorder  6 Lawrence G. Space and Rue L. Cromwell Personal constructs among schizophrenic patients  7 Algimantas Shimkunas Hemispheric asymmetry and schizophrenic thought disorder  8 Steven Schwartz Language and cognition in schizophrenia: a review and synthesis  Author index  Subject index

Biography

Steven Schwartz, Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas.