What Is Schizophrenia?

ISBN-13: 9781461391593 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 270 str.

Jr. William F. Flack; Daniel R. Miller; Morton Wiener

Opis

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.

Spis treści

1. The Concept of Schizophrenia in Europe During the Past One Hundred Years.- 2. Schizophrenia from an American Perspective.- 3. Autism: Core of the Schizophrenic Reaction.- 4. Schizophrenia Is a Word.- 5. Schizophrenia: A Medical View of a Medical Concept.- 6. Schizophrenia and the Disease Model.- 7. The Meaning of Schizophrenia: Compared to What?.- 8. Schizophrenia: An Interpersonal and Kleinian Viewpoint.- 9. The Trouble with Schizophrenia.- 10. Conceptualizations of Human Behavioral Breakdowns: An Analysis Using the Doctrine of Cultural Relativism.- 11. Defining Schizophrenia: A Critique of the Mechanistic Framework.- 12. The Grammar of Schizophrenia.- 13. The Social Construction of Schizophrenia.- 14. Schizophrenia: A Defective, Deficient, Disrupted, Disorganized Construct.- 15. A War of Words? A War of Worlds? The Struggle Over the Definition of Schizophrenia.- 16. Tunnel Vision and Schizophrenia.- 17. Postscript: Premises and Positions.