Schizotypy

Implications for Illness and Health
Erscheinungsjahr 1997
ISBN: 978-0-19-852353-6
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 354 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 699 g

The central thesis of Schizotypy: Implications for Illness and Health is both challenging and controversial: that the features of psychotic disorders actually lie on a continuum with, and form part of, normal behaviour and experience. The dispositional or 'schizotypal' traits associated with psychotic disorders certainly predispose an individual to mental illness, but they may also lead to positive outcomes such as enhanced creativity or spiritual experience. Discussion of each aspect of this theme is supported by extensive experimental and clinical evidence, questioning the received medical wisdom which treats psychotic illness in the narrow context of neurological disease. The result is an authoritative and provocative overview of an important topic in psychological research and clinical practice.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Claridge, Gordon

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie, Sozialpsychiatrie, Suchttherapie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1.: G. Claridge: Theoretical background

- 2.: O. Mason, G. Claridge and L. Williams: Questionnaire measurement

- 3.: D. Rawlings and J. Freeman: Measuring paranoia/suspiciousness

- 4.: L. Williams and A. Beech: Investigations of cognitive inhibitory processes in schizotypy and schizophrenia

- 5.: J. L. Evans: Semantic activation and preconscious processing in schizophrenia and schizophrenia

- 6.: P. Broks: Brain, self, and others: the neuropsychology of social cognition

- 7.: Latent inhibition: relevance to the neural substrates of schizophrenia and schizotypy?H. J. Cassaday

- 8.: A. J. Richardson, O. Mason and G. Claridge: Schizotypy and cerebral lateralisation

- 9.: A. J. Richardson: Dyslexia and schizotypy

- 10.: S. Enright and A. Beech: Schizotypy and obsessive-compulsive disorder

- 11.: M. Jackson: Benign schizotypy? The case of spiritual experience

- 12.: C. McCreery: Hallucinations and arousability: pointers to a theory of psychosis

- 13.: J. H. Brod: Creativity and schizotypy

- 14.: G. Claridge: Final remarks and future directions