Schizophrenia Concepts, Vulnerability, and Intervention
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 emo
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Schizophrenia Concepts, Vulnerability, and Intervention
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Prof. Dr. Dipl.-Psych. Eckart R. Straube Department of Psychiatry, University of Tiibingen OsianderstraBe 22, 0-7400 Tiibingen Federal Republic of Germany Prof. Dr. Dipl.-Psych. Kurt Hahlweg Department of Psyc~ology Technical University of Braunschweig SpielmannstraBe 12A, 0-3300 Braunschweig Federal Republic of Germany
ISBN-13:978-3-642-74310-8
e-ISBN-13:978-3-642-74308-5
DOl: 10.1007/978-3-642-74308-5 Library of Congress Cataloging. in-Publication Data Schizophrenia: concepts, vulnerability, and interventionfEckart R. Straube, Kurt Hahlweg, (eds.). p. em. ISBN-13:978-3-642-74310-8 (U.S.: alk. paper) 1. Schizophrenia-Pathophysiology. I. Straube, Eckart R., 1939- II. Hahlweg, Kurt. [DNLM: I. Schizophrenia. 2. Schizophrenic Psychology. WM 203 833775] RC514.83348 1989 616:89'82-dc20 DNLM/DLC for Library of Congress 89-21989 This work is subject to copyright All rights are fCS!llVed, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, re-use of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in other ways, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is only permitted under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its version of June 24, 1985, and a copyright fee must always be paid. Violations fall under the prosecution act of the German Copyright Law..
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Table of Contents
Introduction (E.R. Straube, K. Hahlweg). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..
1
Part I. Psychopathology and Vulnerability. . . . . .
7
Psychiatric Concepts and Therapy (H.-W. Schied) .
9
The Copenhagen High-Risk Study: Major Psychopathological and Etiological Findings (J. Parnas; F. Schulsinger, S.A. Mednick). . .. 45 Part II. Information Processing and Vulnerability .. '.' . .
57
Information Processing and Schizophrenia (D.R. Hemsley).
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Similarities Between Information-Processing Abnormalities of Actively Symptomatic Schizophrenic Patients and High-Risk Children (K.H. Nuechteriein, K.M. Zaucha). . . . . . . . .
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Vulnerabilities to Schizophrenia: Information-Processing Markers (B. Spring, M. Lemon, P. Fergeson). . . . . . . . . . . . .. 97 Part III. Psychophysiology and Vulnerability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
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