The natural history of mania, depression, and schizophrenia
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The natural history of mania, depression, and schizophrenia
American Psychiatric Press, c1996
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-353) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The Natural History of Mania, Depression, and Schizophrenia takes an unusual look at the course of mental illness, based on data from the Iowa 500 Research Project. This project involved the long-term (30-40 years) follow-up of patients diagnosed with schizophrenia, depression, and bipolar illness.
After presenting a history and background of the study, the authors provide fascinating, verbatim interviews with patients at the time of hospital admission in the 1930s and 1940s. Eight of the 15 chapters are dedicated to the modern, systematic follow-up and family study of these patients. Medical students, residents, psychiatrists, social workers, psychologists, ministers, and clinicians are offered an interesting look at what might be expected should treatment not be instituted with such patients.
Unlike earlier works that focused on the descriptive aspects of mental illness, this book provides clinicians with a more systematic evaluation of the symptom picture, course and outcome, and family history. It concludes with useful information on the diagnosis and classification of the affective disorders and chronic nonaffective psychoses.
Table of Contents
Introduction to the Iowa 500. Historical perspective. Background findings in course and follow-up of the affective disorders and schizophrenia. The family background in the major functional psychoses. The Iowa 500 genesis. Real people: histories and verbatim interviews. The follow-up of untreated patients: the course of the illness unaffected by effective therapy. Families: familial psychiatric illnesses obtained by systematically obtained family histories. Special aspects: life events, early parental loss, premorbid asociality, clinical characteristics, outcome after short follow-up, heterogeneity in bipolar illness, subtyping schizophrenia, delusional disorder, affective symptoms in schizophrenia, sporadic depressive disease. The gospel according to field work: methodology of follow-up and epidemiological findings. What the future held: 30-40 year course and outcome in patients according to final diagnosis. Familial psychiatric illness in schizophrenia and the affective disorders: psychiatric illness in relatives obtained by personal examination. Early clinical and family history findings in light of the final Feighner diagnosis: admission clinical picture and family history relevant to follow-up diagnosis. Zero-symptom schizophrenia: symptoms present in schizophrenic patients after a 30-40 year follow-up. Diagnosis and classification of the affective disorders and chronic nonaffective psychoses: the contribution of the Iowa 500 to diagnosis and classification. References. Appendix I: The Iowa 500-bibliography. Appendix II: Code book-index admission and chart follow-up for the Iowa 500 Study. Index.
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