Schizophrenia: Innovations in Diagnosis and Treatment

ISBN-13: 9780789022691 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 306 str.

Colin A. Ross

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Ross presents a new theory outlining a previously unknown dissociative subtype of schizophrenia related to psychological trauma that can be treated primarily with psychotherapy as opposed to medication. Aimed at clinicians, researchers, and students, this text uses a number of case studies to explain the role of trauma in the development of psychop

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• Preface
  
• Acknowledgments
  
• A Statement of the Problem
  
• PART I: A DISSOCIATIVE SUBTYPE OF SCHIZOPHRENIA
  
• Chapter 1. Assumptions and Logic Underlying the Dissociative Subtype of Schizophrenia
  
• A Model of Gene-Environment Interaction
  
• Implications of Monozygotic Twin Data
  
• The Triangle of Recovery
  
• Chapter 2. Characteristics of the Dissociative Subtype of Schizophrenia
  
• The Spectrum from Nondissociative Subtypes of Schizophrenia to Dissociative Identity Disorder
  
• PART II: PSYCHOSIS AND SCHIZOPHRENIA
  
• Chapter 3. Definitions of Psychosis and Schizophrenia
  
• DSM-IV-TR Definitions of Psychosis
  
• DSM-IV-TR Text and Criteria for Schizophrenia
  
• Chapter 4. The Genetic Model of Schizophrenia
  
• The Genome As a Minor Contributor to the Causes of Schizophrenia
  
• Evidence for the Toxic and Protective Effects of the Psychosocial Environment
  
• Chapter 5. The Efficacy of Antipsychotic Medication
  
• Chapter 6. Psychosis and Trauma (John Reed and Colin A. Ross)
  
• Childhood Trauma and General Psychopathology
  
• The Base Rate of Child Abuse Among Psychiatric Inpatients
  
• Childhood Trauma and Psychosis
  
• Failure of Most Research on Schizophrenia to Consider Psychological Trauma
  
• PART III: DISSOCIATION AND DISSOCIATIVE IDENTITY DISORDER
  
• Chapter 7. Definition and Scientific Status of Dissociation
  
• Errors of Logic and Scholarship Concerning Dissociation
  
• Diagnosis of Dissociative Identity Disorder
  
• General Errors of Logic and Scholarship
  
• Chapter 8. Dissociation and Trauma
  
• A Continuum of Dissociation Versus Discrete Pathological States
  
• The Trauma-Dissociation Model
  
• Chapter 9. Dissociative Identity Disorder
  
• Reliability and Validity
  
• Etiology
  
• Epidemiology
  
• Phenomenology
  
• PART IV: DISSOCIATIVE IDENTITY DISORDER AND SCHIZOPHRENIA
  
• Chapter 10. Bleuler’s Description of Schizophrenia
  
• Analysis of Bleuler’s 1991 Text on Schizophrenia
  
• The Fundamental Role of Dissociation in Schizophrenia
  
• Chapter 11. Positive Symptoms in Schizophrenia and Dissociative Identity Disorder
  
• Distinction Between Schizophrenia and DID in the Schizophrenia Literature
  
• Data on the Overlap Between Schizophrenia and DID
  
• A Prospective Study of the Dissociative Subtype of Schizophrenia
  
• Chapter 12. Case Examples of Dissociative Schizophrenia
  
• From August Hoch, MD
  
• From Sheila Cantor, MD
  
• From Patricia J. Ruocchio
  
• From Barbara A. Turner
  
• From Janice C. Jordan
  
• From Leslie Greenblat
  
• Chapter 13. Hysterical and Reactive Psychoses
  
• Chapter 14. Proposed Diagnostic Criteria for Dissociative Schizophrenia
  
• 295.40 Dissociative Type
  
• Diagnostic Criteria for 295.40 Dissociative Type
  
• PART V: TREATMENT
  
• Chapter 15. Treatment Outcome Data
  
• Subjects and Treatment Provided
  
• Methodological Limitations of the Study
  
• Limitations of the Literature
  
• Treatment Outcomes
  
• Chapter 16. Principles of Psychotherapy for Dissociative Schizophrenia
  
• Principles of Trauma Therapy
  
• Chapter 17. Talking to the Voices
  
• Bibliography
  
• Index
  
• Reference Notes Included
  

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