Letter to The Lancet: Prefrontal Leucotomy
Donald W. Winnicott
in The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott: Volume 2, 1939-1945
In this letter to The Lancet on prefrontal leucotomy, Winnicott holds that the theory that underlying depression, psychosis, and schizophrenia are factors of emotional disturbance has not ...
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Foreword to The Hands of the Living God: By Marion Milner (London: Hogarth, 1969)
Donald W. Winnicott and Marion Milner
in The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott: Volume 8, 1967 - 1968
Winnicott’s Foreword to Marion Milner’s long case study with a schizophrenic patient. ...
An Introduction to Mindfulness and Acceptance Therapies for Psychosis
Brandon A. Gaudiano
in Incorporating Acceptance and Mindfulness into the Treatment of Psychosis: Current Trends and Future Directions
Pharmacological treatments can be effective for reducing positive symptoms of psychosis. Nevertheless, additional interventions often are needed to address negative symptoms, functioning, ...
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Letter to Herbert Rosenfeld
Donald W. Winnicott
in The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott: Volume 4, 1952-1955
In this letter, Winnicott disagrees with Rosenfeld about the work of Melanie Klein, stating that there is much in psychosis which cannot be explained along Kleinian lines. As such, ...
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Prevention of Schizophrenia
Raquel E. Gur, Ruben C. Gur, Matcheri S. Keshavan, Christian Kohler, and Elaine Walker
in Treating and Preventing Adolescent Mental Health Disorders: What We Know and What We Don't Know (2 ed.)
This chapter introduces the topic with an overview of the current thinking on preventative measures for schizophrenia. It states that there are currently recognized precursors of ...
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The Schizophrenia Spectrum
Marco Del Giudice
in Evolutionary Psychopathology: A Unified Approach
The chapter discusses schizophrenia spectrum disorders (SSDs), including schizophrenia and schizotypal personality disorder (SPD). Schizophrenia and related disorders are part of the ...
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Cotard’s Syndrome
Hans Debruyne
in Unusual and Rare Psychological Disorders: A Handbook for Clinical Practice and Research
Cotard’s syndrome involves nihilistic delusions about the patient’s own body, such as believing that he or she is a walking corpse. The syndrome is named for Jules Cotard (1840–1889), a ...
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Contribution to a Symposium on Envy and Jealousy
Donald W. Winnicott
in The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott: Volume 9, 1969 - 1971
In this paper, Winnicott states his differences from the views of Melanie Klein on the development of envy in the infant in a symposium organised by the British Psychoanalytic Society. ...
Psychosis and bipolar disorder
Bob G. Knight and Nancy A. Pachana
in Psychological Assessment and Therapy with Older Adults
Chapter 9 considers schizophrenia, psychosis, and bipolar disorder in later life, the assessment of these conditions (clinical interview and differential diagnosis), and therapy with ...
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The Aetiology of Infantile Schizophrenia in Terms of Adaptive Failure
Donald W. Winnicott
in The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott: Volume 8, 1967 - 1968
In this paper given at a conference on the aetiology of infantile schizophrenia, which he could not attend, Winnicott puts forward the notion that there must be room for discussion of ...
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Schizophrenia and Other Psychosis in Asians and Asian Americans
Keh-Ming Lin, Hai-Gwo Hwu, and Ming T. Tsuang
in Handbook of Adult Psychopathology in Asians: Theory, Diagnosis, and Treatment
Chapter 5 explores schizophrenia and other psychosis in Asians and Asian Americans. It includes issues related to nosology and manifestations of psychosis (epidemiology, symptomatology, ...
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Group CBT for Psychosis: A Guidebook for Clinicians
Tania Lecomte, Claude Leclerc, and Til Wykes
The purpose of this book is to make group CBT for psychosis more accessible to clinicians everywhere. CBT for psychosis is now recognized as an evidence-based intervention that should be ...
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Schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders
Martin Brüne
in Textbook of Evolutionary Psychiatry and Psychosomatic Medicine: The Origins of Psychopathology (2 ed.)
Schizophrenia spectrum disorders are characterized by the presence of delusions, hallucination, disorganized thinking, motor abnormalities, and/or negative symptoms. Behaviourally, ...
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The Concept of the False Self
Donald W. Winnicott
in The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott: Volume 7, 1964 - 1966
In this paper, Winnicott discusses the link between the concept of maturity, personal adult health and personality. Everyone, Winnicott contends, is divided into a true and a false self. He ...
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Review: Childhood Schizophrenia: By William Goldfarb (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1961)
Donald W. Winnicott
in The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott: Volume 6, 1960-1963
In this review, Winnicott expresses his enthusiasm for this summary of research done at the Henry Ittleson Centre, New York City, where the research team works with those who are involved ...
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Prognosis of persecutory delusions in schizophrenia: a 20-year longitudinal study
Martin Harrow, Thomas Jobe, and Ellen B. Astrachan-Fletcher
in Persecutory Delusions: Assessment, Theory, and Treatment
Theresearch described in this chapter was designed to provide longitudinaldata on the consistency and uniqueness of persecutory delusions inschizophrenia over an extended period of time. ...
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Schizophrenia
Michael McGuire and Alfonso Troisi
in Darwinian Psychiatry
This chapter has introduces a number of evolutionary views of schizophrenia, and illustrates how evolutionary concepts can alter how existing research data are interpreted and provides new ...
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Nonverbal Behavior in Schizophrenia
Ann M. Kring and Kelly S. Earnst
in Nonverbal Behavior in Clinical Settings
Chapter 11 reviews emotional disturbances in schizophrenia, focusing on the nonverbal emotional displays in this condition. It explores theoretical approaches to the study of emotion and ...
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Memories of Parental Decompensation
Theodore P. Beauchaine
in Breaking the Silence: Personal and family accounts from mental health professionals
Chapter 8 describes the contributor’s his childhood, in which he, his twin sister, and their older brother coped with their mother’s descent into chronic schizophrenia. ...
Defining Schizophrenia
Raquel E. Gur, Ruben C. Gur, Matcheri S. Keshavan, Christian Kohler, and Elaine Walker
in Treating and Preventing Adolescent Mental Health Disorders: What We Know and What We Don't Know (2 ed.)
This chapter begins by describing exactly what schizophrenia is. It also defines what is meant by adolescent and adult in terms of this condition. It goes on to look at the diagnostic ...
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