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Schizophrenia

John S. Strauss and William T. Carpenter

(Critical issues in psychiatry)

Plenum Medical Book Co., c1981

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Includes bibliographies and index

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Description

When Ifirst read this manuscript, Iexclaimed to a colleague: "This is the most important and clinically relevant book on schizophrenia since Bleuler!" Time has not altered my initial enthusiastic evaluation. Drs. Strauss and Carpenter are among the most distinguished researchers in the field ofschizophrenia,butthey are also clinicians ofgreat experience, breadth, sensitivity, and flexibility. It is from this expertise, as well as theirwide familiarity with the world literature, thattheyhavebeenable to distill the essence of an exceedingly practical and comprehensive approach to the understanding, evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of schizophrenia. They begin by unequivocally stating the inadequacy and futility of approaching schizophrenia via a single model. Standingalone, neither a biomedical, a social, nor a psychological model can adequately account for the complexities of this illness with regard to etiology, phenomenol ogy, course, or optimum treatment. While the advent of psychophar macologicalinterventionhas made a profound impact on both individual treatment and the responsive support systems, and is an important aspect ofmosttreatmentplans, to view schizophrenia as a phenothiazine deficiency disease is not only bad science but bad therapeutics. Their conceptualization of an "interactive developmental systems model" provides a framework upon which to build a broad medical approach to schizophrenia. This model relates variables drawn from different systems, interactive with one another, and contributing to a pathogenetic process across time. Within this bio-social-psychological matrix, one can then organize information relative to vulnerability, the manifest illness per se, the course of the disorder, and the multiplicity of factors relative to treatment planning.

Table of Contents

1 The Concept of Schizophrenia.- 2 An Interactive Developmental Systems Model of Schizophrenia.- 3 Assessment and Diagnosis.- 4 Beyond Diagnostic Criteria: The Patient's Experience of Schizophrenia.- 5 Prognosis.- 6 The Extent of the Problem: Epidemiology of Schizophrenia.- 7 Etiologies of Schizophrenia: Biological.- 8 Etiologies of Schizophrenia: Psychological and Social.- 9 Treatments: General Principles.- 10 Treatments: Guidelines and Modalities.- 11 The Clinical-Legal Interface in Schizophrenia.- 12 In Conclusion: Principles Underlying Treatment, Research, and Understanding of Schizophrenia.

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  • NCID
    BA22491544
  • ISBN
    • 0306407043
  • LCCN
    81007321
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    New York
  • Pages/Volumes
    xi, 220 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
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