Disability associated with mental disorders is and will remain one of the most significant problems in the public health domain in the last decades of the twentieth century, consuming a disproportion ate amount of societal resources and severely testing the coping capacity of the affected individuals, their families, and communi ties. In spite of impressive advances in the development of pharma cological means of controlling symptoms and, in some notable instances, of intervening into the clinical course of major psychiat ric disorders, such as schizophrenia, the insidious loss of adaptive...