Chronic schizophrenia; explorations in theory and treatment

The central issue and the organizing feature of this book may be essentially framed as follows: What can be done about the treatment of patients in a given mental hospital with approximately one-half of its population classified as chronic schizophrenics and where there is a minimum of medical, psyc...

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Main Author: Appleby, Lawrence, 1930-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Glencoe, Ill., Free Press [©1960]
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Table of Contents:
  • Our growing restlessness with problems of chronic schizophrenia / Nathaniel S. Apter
  • Some biological considerations of the problem of mental illness / Ludwig Von Bertalanffy
  • Concerning our advocacy of unitary concept of mental illness / Karl Menninger
  • Social psychological aspects of schizophrenia / S. Kirson Weinberg
  • The group dynamics of schizophrenia / Gregory Bateson
  • Communication: an approach to chronic schizophrenia / John Cumming
  • Biochemical aspects of schizophrenia and pharmacodynamic implications / Bruno Minz
  • The concept of the self in schizophrenia / Jordan M. Scher
  • Psychoanalytic remarks on the psychology and therapy of chronic schizophrenia / H.G. Van der Waals
  • The schizophrenic reaction and interpersonal field / Otto Will Jr.
  • Theoretical vs. empirical treatment models: an exploratory investigation / Lawrence Appleby, Augusto Proano, Robert Perry
  • Rehabilitation of hospitalized chronic schizophrenic patients / George Brooks
  • Organization: a fundamental therapeutic function / Ian L.W. Clancey
  • The psychological experience of reality in schizophrenia: therapeutic implications / Austin M. DesLauriers
  • Evaluation of a treatment program for chronically ill schizophrenic patients: a six year program / E.F. Galioni
  • The unsettled and unsettling question of chronic schizophrenia / Martin Scheerer.