1st Edition

Positive and Negative Symptoms in Psychosis Description, Research, and Future Directions

Edited By Philip D. Harvey, Elaine Walker Copyright 1987

    First published in 1987. This volume presents a collection of chapters on varied aspects of psychotic symptoms, largely within the context of positive versus negative symptoms. These chapters cover a broad range of aspects of these symptoms, such as longitudinal course, cognitive correlates, biochemical and structural correlates, conceptual issues, and research methods. The majority of these chapters were presented at the SUNY-Binghamton/Cornell University conference on schizophrenia that took place on October 17-19, 1985, in Ithaca, NY. That conference was designed to provide a forum for the dissemination of information on psychotic symptoms in general, with the overriding framework of positive versus negative symptoms.

    1: Relating Cognitive Processes to Symptoms; 2: Validating and Conceptualizing Positive and Negative Symptoms; 3: A Twin Study Perspective on Positive and Negative Symptoms of Schizophrenia; 4: Laboratory Research; 5: Negative Symptoms in Schizophrenia; 6: Positive and Negative Syndromes in Schizophrenia; 7: Positive Thought Disorder in Schizophrenia; 8: Thought Disorder and Measured Features of Language Production in Schizophrenia; 9: Cerebral Structure and Symptomatology; 10: Electrodermal Activity and symptomatology in Schizophrenia; 11: Genetics and the Phenomenology of Schizophrenia; 12: Afterword

    Biography

    Philip D. Harvey State University of New York at Binghampton, Elaine E. Walker Emory University.

    "If you supervise graduate students who want to do what looks like safe research...you should insist they read it. If you teach abnormal psychology, here is an update on some lasting, important questions and some new ways of answering them."
    Contemporary Psychology