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What Is Schizophrenia?

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  • © 1991

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Editors:
  1. William F. Flack

    1. Department of Pyschology Frances L. Hiatt School of Physchology, Clark University, Worcester, USA

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  2. Morton Wiener

    1. Department of Pyschology Frances L. Hiatt School of Physchology, Clark University, Worcester, USA

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  3. Daniel R. Miller

    1. Department of Pyschology Frances L. Hiatt School of Physchology, Clark University, Worcester, USA
      Department of Psychology, Wesleyan University, Middletown, USA

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. The Concept of Schizophrenia in Europe During the Past One Hundred Years

    • Manfred Bleuler
    Pages 1-15

  3. Schizophrenia from an American Perspective

    • Joseph Zubin, Stuart R. Steinhauer, Ruth Condray
    Pages 17-31

  4. Autism: Core of the Schizophrenic Reaction

    • Erik Strömgren
    Pages 33-44

  5. Schizophrenia Is a Word

    • Rue L. Cromwell
    Pages 45-57

  6. Schizophrenia: A Medical View of a Medical Concept

    • Robert E. Kendell
    Pages 59-72

  7. Schizophrenia and the Disease Model

    • Paul R. McHugh
    Pages 73-80

  8. The Meaning of Schizophrenia: Compared to What?

    • John S. Strauss
    Pages 81-90

  9. Schizophrenia: An Interpersonal and Kleinian Viewpoint

    • Elliott Jaques
    Pages 91-96

  10. The Trouble with Schizophrenia

    • Joseph Margolis
    Pages 97-110

  11. Conceptualizations of Human Behavioral Breakdowns: An Analysis Using the Doctrine of Cultural Relativism

    • Horacio Fabrega Jr.
    Pages 111-143

  12. Defining Schizophrenia: A Critique of the Mechanistic Framework

    • Daniel R. Miller, William F. Flack Jr.
    Pages 145-159

  13. The Grammar of Schizophrenia

    • Jeff Coulter
    Pages 161-171

  14. The Social Construction of Schizophrenia

    • Theodore R. Sarbin
    Pages 173-197

  15. Schizophrenia: A Defective, Deficient, Disrupted, Disorganized Construct

    • Morton Wiener
    Pages 199-222

  16. A War of Words? A War of Worlds? The Struggle over the Definition of Schizophrenia

    • Bernard Kaplan
    Pages 223-244

  17. Tunnel Vision and Schizophrenia

    • Robert C. Carson
    Pages 245-249

  18. Postscript: Premises and Positions

    • William F. Flack Jr., Daniel R. Miller, Morton Wiener
    Pages 251-261

  19. Back Matter

    Pages 263-270
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About this book

William F. Flack, Jr., Daniel R. Miller, and Morton Wiener What is schizophrenia?l This was the seemingly simple question posed to a diverse group of investigators asked to present their views at a conference sponsored by the Frances L. Hiatt School of Psychology at Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts, in June, 1990. The plan was to have a small group of theoretically minded clinicians and investigators from different professions and orientations convene to discuss and debate conceptual and metatheoretical issues surrounding "schizophrenia." Instead of concentrating on the latest empirical findings, we were primarily interested in having a series of exchanges 2 about the very different meanings and uses of this concept. In our review of the literature on schizophrenia, we uncovered what seemed to us to be multiple, non-overlapping uses of the term. For some investigators, it appears to be used to specify certain kinds of people; for others, it is employed to refer to certain kinds of behaviors. For still others, the term is grounded in biochemical events, or in socioculturally specific actions. A number of alternatives are explored in the contributors' papers in this volume.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Pyschology Frances L. Hiatt School of Physchology, Clark University, Worcester, USA

    William F. Flack, Morton Wiener, Daniel R. Miller

  • Department of Psychology, Wesleyan University, Middletown, USA

    Daniel R. Miller

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: What Is Schizophrenia?

  • Editors: William F. Flack, Morton Wiener, Daniel R. Miller

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-9157-9

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York, Inc. 1991

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4613-9159-3Published: 20 November 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4613-9157-9Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 270

  • Topics: Psychology, general, Psychiatry

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