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"When Ifirst read this manuscript, Iexclaimed to a colleague: ""This is the most important and clinically relevant book on schizophrenia since Bleuler!"" Time has not altered my initial enthusiastic evaluation. Drs. Strauss and Carpenter are among the most distinguished researchers in the field ofschizophrenia,butthey are also clinicians ofgreat experience, breadth, sensitivity, and flexibility. It is from this expertise, as well as theirwide familiarity with the world literature, thattheyhavebeenable to distill the essence of an exceedingly practical and comprehensive approach to the understanding, evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of schizophrenia. They begin by unequivocally stating the inadequacy and futility of approaching schizophrenia via a single model. Standingalone, neither a biomedical, a social, nor a psychological model can adequately account for the complexities of this illness with regard to etiology, phenomenol­ ogy, course, or optimum treatment. While the advent of psychophar­ macologicalinterventionhas made a profound impact on both individual treatment and the responsive support systems, and is an important aspect ofmosttreatmentplans, to view schizophrenia as a phenothiazine deficiency disease is not only bad science but bad therapeutics. Their conceptualization of an ""interactive developmental systems model"" provides a framework upon which to build a broad medical approach to schizophrenia. This model relates variables drawn from different systems, interactive with one another, and contributing to a pathogenetic process across time. Within this bio-social-psychological matrix, one can then organize information relative to vulnerability, the manifest illness per se, the course of the disorder, and the multiplicity of factors relative to treatmentplanning."

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Author:   John S. Strauss ,  William T. Carpenter Jr.
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1981
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.367kg
ISBN:  

9781489903297

ISBN 10:   1489903291
Pages:   220
Publication Date:   04 June 2013
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

1 The Concept of Schizophrenia.- 2 An Interactive Developmental Systems Model of Schizophrenia.- 3 Assessment and Diagnosis.- 4 Beyond Diagnostic Criteria: The Patient’s Experience of Schizophrenia.- 5 Prognosis.- 6 The Extent of the Problem: Epidemiology of Schizophrenia.- 7 Etiologies of Schizophrenia: Biological.- 8 Etiologies of Schizophrenia: Psychological and Social.- 9 Treatments: General Principles.- 10 Treatments: Guidelines and Modalities.- 11 The Clinical-Legal Interface in Schizophrenia.- 12 In Conclusion: Principles Underlying Treatment, Research, and Understanding of Schizophrenia.

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