Schizotypy and Schizophrenia : The View from Experimental Psychopathology
ISBN: 9781606238653 | 1606238655
Edition: 1stFormat: Trade Book
Publisher: The Guilford Press
Pub. Date: 7/9/2010
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This compelling book argues that all people with schizophrenia share a personality organization known as schizotypy. Presented is a novel framework for understanding schizophrenia through the study of individuals who may never develop the disorder, but who nonetheless harbor a liability for it. Mark F. Lenzenweger comprehensively reviews current knowledge about schizotypy while providing a state-of-the-art overview of experimental psychopathology methods, making the book useful and relevant for both researchers and students. Lenzenweger demonst... MORE
| Schizotypes and Schizotypy | |
| ôWelcome to the Machineö | p. 3 |
| The Experimental Psychopathologist's Toolbox | |
| Reliability, Validity, and How We Collect Data | p. 23 |
| Practical Tools and Pragmatic Issues | p. 57 |
| Analytic Heuristics, Caveats, and Soapbox Moments | p. 88 |
| Schizotypy Viewed from the Laboratory | |
| Recognizing the Schizotype | p. 117 |
| Begin ... MORE | p. 141 |
| Genetics, Genomics, Phenotypes, and Endophenotypes: The Challenge of Complex Disease | p. 177 |
| Probing Critical Neurocognitive Endophenotypes: Attentional Dysfunction, Executive and Working Memory Functioning, Eye-Movement Dysfunction, and Thought Disorder | p. 236 |
| Motion and Touch: Simpler May Be Better | p. 267 |
| The Schizotype through Time … | p. 298 |
| Now, Just What about This ôTypeö Business in ôSchizotypeö? | p. 330 |
| Reactions, Reflections, and Projections | |
| Thoughts on Impediments, Imaging, Environment, Intervention, and Innovation | p. 363 |
| Summary Rating Sheet from Manual for Use with Checklist of Schizotypic Signs | p. 387 |
| Selected Quantitative Measures of Schizotypy | p. 390 |
| Getting Started: A Provisional Reading List | p. 391 |
| References | p. 393 |
| Index | p. 435 |
| Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved. |
Mark F. Lenzenweger, PhD, is Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the State University of New York at Binghamton and Adjunct Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York. Dr. Lenzenweger held a professorial post at Cornell University for 11 years, where he was a member of the tenured faculty. He moved on to Harvard University, where he chaired the Quantitative Methods Committee in the Department of Psychology, as well as helped to relaunch the clinical science program there. He returned to upstate New York to accept an interarea professorship in clinical science, cognitive science, and behavioral neuroscience in the Department of Psychology at the State University of New York at Binghamton and was promoted to Distinguished Professor in 2007. Dr. Lenzenweger has been recognized as a Distinguished Investigator by NARSAD: The Brain and Behavior Research Fund and is a Fellow of the American Psychological Society and the American Psychopathological Association. Widely published, he maintains active research programs in three areas: schizotypy and schizophrenia, longitudinal study of personality disorders, and quantitative methods. He also continues to see patients in long-term psychotherapy in private practice.
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