Schizophrenia and Its Treatment: Where Is the Progress?

Author:   Matthew M. Kurtz
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
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9780199974443


Pages:   236
Publication Date:   21 January 2016
Format:   Hardback
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This volume aims to explain why, despite profound advances in psychological science and neuroscientific analyses of schizophrenia, outcomes for the disorder have changed little over the past 100 years. More specifically, the book provides a critical analysis of the limiting role on treatment development of diagnostic classifications and views of the disorder as caused by a core pathology, and instead promotes the idea of individually tailored, multimodal treatment for distinct disorder features (e.g., positive symptoms, cognitive deficits). Each of these features of schizophrenia may or may not be present in different individuals with the same diagnosis. These features may also bear little functional relationship to one another. This aim is achieved through a critical integration of contemporary psychological scientific and neuroscientific analyses of schizophrenia, as well as research on psychological and somatic treatments. Historical perspectives on diagnosis and treatment are considered as well.

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Author:   Matthew M. Kurtz
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.544kg
ISBN:  

9780199974443


ISBN 10:   0199974446
Pages:   236
Publication Date:   21 January 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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< This monograph represents an enormous amount of scholarship covering admirably the historical, scientific and humanistic problems posed by schizophreniaEL In short this is an exceptional work likely to be of broad and lasting interest to many different kinds of readers.> -Paul Lysaker, Clinical Psychologist at the Richard L Roudebush VA Medical Center and Professor of Clinical Psychology, Department of Psychiatry Indiana University School of Medicine < This is an excellent, interesting book that covers a vast amount of material in an accessible, informative, and lively fashion.> -Kim T. Mueser, Professor of Occupational Therapy, Boston University, and Executive Director of the Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation


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Matthew M. Kurtz received his BA in Psychology from Reed College and his PhD in Psychology and Neuroscience from Princeton University. He is an associate professor of Psychology and Neuroscience and Behavior at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT where he is also Chair of the Neuroscience and Behavior Program. He has published over 50 academic papers and chapters on topics related to cognition and rehabilitation in schizophrenia.

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