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Schizophrenia

Concepts, Vulnerability, and Intervention

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  • © 1990

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Editors:
  1. Eckart R. Straube

    1. Department of Psychiatry, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Federal Republic of Germany

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  2. Kurt Hahlweg

    1. Department of Psychology, Technical University of Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Federal Republic of Germany

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-IX
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • E. R. Straube, K. Hahlweg
      Pages 1-6

  3. Psychopathology and Vulnerability

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7
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    2. Psychiatric Concepts and Therapy

      • H.-W. Schied
      Pages 9-43

    3. The Copenhagen High-Risk Study: Major Psychopathological and Etiological Findings

      • J. Parnas, F. Schulsinger, A. Mednick
      Pages 45-56

  4. Information Processing and Vulnerability

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 57-57
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    2. Information Processing and Schizophrenia

      • D. R. Hemsley
      Pages 59-76

    3. Similarities Between Information-Processing Abnormalities of Actively Symptomatic Schizophrenic Patients and High-Risk Children

      • K. H. Nuechterlein, K. M. Zaucha
      Pages 77-96

    4. Vulnerabilities to Schizophrenia: Information-Processing Markers

      • B. Spring, M. Lemon, P. Fergeson
      Pages 97-114

  6. Intervention Programs: Cognitive, Social, and Emotional Disturbances in Schizophrenics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 159-159
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    2. Cognitive Treatment in Schizophrenia

      • H. D. Brenner, S. Kraemer, M. Hermanutz, B. Hodel
      Pages 161-191

    3. Training Skills in the Psychiatrically Disabled: Learning Coping and Competence

      • R. P. Liberman, K. T. Mueser, C. J. Wallace, H. E. Jacobs, T. Eckman, H. K. Massel
      Pages 193-216

    4. Family Interventions in the Community Management of Schizophrenia: Methods and Results

      • I. R. H. Falloon, K. Hahlweg, N. Tarrier
      Pages 217-240

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 241-244
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About this book

Schizophrenia remains the most complex, puzzling, and because of its tendency towards chronicity, the most severe of the mental disorders. It is a very heterogeneous disorder characterized by extreme disruptions of thought, per­ ception, behavior, and emotion. About I % of the population worldwide will experience at least one schizophrenic episode. Most of the patients will have a number of exacerbations leading in about 30% of cases to a chronic residual state, due either to the illness itself or to psychosocial environmental factors, or-most likely-to the interaction of both. Given the enormous personal hardship for patients and their relatives as well as the staggering costs of the illness for our societies, research in schizo­ phrenia has become the number one priority in many countries, especially in the United States. However, research on the etiology of schizophrenia has failed to establish a single causal factor, and it is nowadays accepted to be multifactorial. A combjnation of biological predisposition and enviromnental circumstances is assumed to be necessary for the manifestation of the illness. This shift in orientation away from an either/or (biological or environmental, e.g., family interaction) point of view, as evident in the work of the 1950s and 1960s, was certainly desirable to encourage research.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Psychiatry, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Federal Republic of Germany

    Eckart R. Straube

  • Department of Psychology, Technical University of Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Federal Republic of Germany

    Kurt Hahlweg

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Schizophrenia

  • Book Subtitle: Concepts, Vulnerability, and Intervention

  • Editors: Eckart R. Straube, Kurt Hahlweg

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-74308-5

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1990

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-74310-8Published: 13 December 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-74308-5Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 244

  • Topics: Psychiatry

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