Understanding and Treating Schizophrenia Contemporary Research, Theory, and Practice

• Preface
• Section I: The development, Evolution, Epidemiology, and Subsyndromes of Schizophrenia
• Chapter 1. History of the Concept of Schizophrenia
• The Premodern Period
• The Nineteenth Century
• Origins of the Concept of Schizophrenia
• Emil Kraepelin
• Adolph Meyer
• Eugen Bleuler
• Summary
• Chapter 2. Evolving Diagnostic Criteria
• Diagnosing Schizophrenia
• DSM-I
• DSM-II
• Problems with Diagnostic Reliability
• European Diagnostic Efforts
• Research Definitions
• DSM-III
• DSM-IV
• Reliability and Validity
• Summary
• Chapter 3. Epidemiology, Course, and Outcome
• Prevalence and Incidence
• Phases of Schizophrenia
• Long-Term Outcome
• Positive and Negative Symptoms
• Symptom and Premorbid Predictors of Outcome
• Schizophrenia and Comorbid Substance Use
• The Role of Culture in Outcome: The WHO International Pilot Study of Schizophrenia (IPSS)
• Summary
• Chapter 4. Language, Thought, and Syndromes of Schizophrenia
• Delusions?
• Categories of Symptoms
• Summary
• Section II. Integrative Models and Level of Analysis
• Chapter 5. Vulnerability-Stress Models
• A “Two-Hit” Biological Model of Diathesis-Stress
• Vulnerability
• Stress
• Summary
• Chapter 6. Epistemology, General Systems Theory, and Schizophrenia
• General Systems Theory
• Summary
• Section III. Biological Perspectives
• Chapter 7. Genetics and Schizophrenia
• Genetic Models
• The Nature of Genetic Influence
• Concordance Research
• Basic Genetic Research
• Summary
• Chapter 8. Neurobiological Models and Research
• Studies of Specific Brain Abnormalities
• Neurobiological Modular Systems and Clusters of Schizophrenia Symptoms
• Cognitive Dysmetria
• Modular Disjunction
• Dysfunctions in Interrelated Systems and Symptom Clusters
• Summary
• Chapter 9. Antipsychotic Medications and Neurochemical Theories
• Efficacy of Typical Antipsychotics
• The Dopamine Hypothesis
• Atypical Antipsychotics
• The Hyperdopaminergic Hypothesis and Glutamate
• Schizophrenia: A Neurotransmitter Imbalance Syndrome?
• Summary
• Section IV. Cognitive-Behavioral, Neurocognitive, and Neurodevelopmental Research
• Chapter 10. Neurocognitive and Neurodevelopmental Research
• Neurocognitive Indicators of Vulnerability
• Neurodevelopmental Precursors to Clinical Symptoms
• Therapies for Neurocognitive Deficits
• Summary
• Chapter 11. Cognitive-Behavioral Approaches and Therapies
• Applied Behavioral Analysis
• The Cognitive-Behavioral Approach
• Broad-Spectrum Cognitive Therapy
• Symptom-Focused Cognitive Interventions
• Social Cognition and Schizophrenia
• Cognitive-Behavioral Intervention Programs Tailored to Symptom Phase
• Personal Therapy (PT): A Disorder-Relevant Therapy
• Summary
• Section V. Psychodynamic, Phenomenological, and Family-Based Theories
• Chapter 12. Psychodynamic Theories: The Role of Early Experience
• Background
• Sullivan’s Interpersonal Theory
• The Kleinian School
• Margaret Mahler
• Object Relations and Delusions
• Robbins Hierarchical Systems/Psychoanalytical Model
• Contemporary Psychodynamic Therapies
• Summary
• Chapter 13. Phenomenology and Schizophrenia
• Delusions and the Relationship to the Outer World
• The Process of Delusion Formation
• Schizophrenic and Nonschizophrenic Delusions
• Daseinanalysis
• Summary
• Chapter 14. Schizophrenia and the Family
• Murray Bowen and the Washington Group
• Theodore Lidz and the Yale Group
• Y.O. Alanen and Finnish Family Research
• The Palo Alto Group—Jackson, Bateson, Haley, Weakland, Satir, and Watzlawick
• Experimental Family Studies—Mishler and Waxler
• The Rochester Research Group—Wynne and Singer
• Summary
• Section VI. Psychodynamic, Phenomenological,

Biography

Terry S Trepper, Glenn D Shean