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1 online resource |
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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 |
| Summary |
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, psychological, and nursing personnel? Our plan, which is suggested by the ordering of this volume, was to have formal papers presented which both described some theoretical notions or viewpoint about schizophrenia and either a definite treatment procedure or the logical implications for a therapeutic method. There was also to be counter-discussion after these presentations. The broadest aim then was to conceptualize definitive practical treatments for the relatively large, public mental institution. The first section includes those papers dealing with the broad nature of the problem; the second section, still somewhat general, is more precise in its theoretical formulations and offers some clinical applications; the third division is highly specific in its clinical dealings and is generally concerned with empirical findings and pragmatic techniques. The final section is an attempt to critically examine and summarize the aforementioned sections. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2005 APA, all rights reserved) |
| Notes |
Title from table of contents page (viewed Feb. 19, 2008) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and bibliographical references |
| Issuing Body |
Made available through: American Psychological Association's PsyBooks Collection |
| In |
PsycBooks |
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Schizophrenia.
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Schizophrenia
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Schizophrenia
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proceedings (reports)
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Actes de congrès.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Appleby, Lawrence, 1930-
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