Schizophrenia genesis : the origins of madness /
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| Author / Creator: | Gottesman, Irving I. |
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| Imprint: | New York : Freeman, c1991. |
| Description: | xiii, 296 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Series of books in psychology |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1164300 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- 1. In the Beginning
- Early Accounts of Schizophrenia
- Historical Views of Insanity and Its Treatment: Some Misguided Clues to Causes
- Origins of Modern Considerations in Mental Disorders
- 2. How Do We Know When It's Schizophrenia?
- Reducing Uncertainty in Diagnosing Schizophrenia
- Genuine Schizophrenia: A Case History
- Schizophrenia's Forgeries and False Leads
- Experiments in Making Clinical Judgments
- A Prototype for Diagnosing Schizophrenia
- Diagnosing Schizophrenia: An Integrated Summary
- Schizophrenia and Childhood Psychoses
- 3. Anguished Voices I: Personal Accounts of Survivors
- Where Did I Go?
- The Messiah Quest
- After the Funny Farm
- The Hard Road Back
- Reprise
- 4. Schizophrenia across Time and Space
- Lessons from Epidemiology
- Is Schizophrenia a Recent Disease?
- From Raw Data toward Strategic Information
- The Age of Onset of Schizophrenia
- The Demographics of Longevity
- Attempts to Discover the True Number of Schizophrenics
- From Mental Hospital Statistics to Community Estimates
- The Distribution of Schizophrenia by Social Class
- Schizophrenia around the World
- Reprise
- 5. Is Schizophrenia Inherited Genetically?
- A Genetics Primer
- From Simple to Complex Schemes of Inheritance
- Foundations for a Genetic Position
- Family Studies
- Summary
- 6. The Evidence from Twin Studies
- Classical Twin Studies: 1928-1953
- Contemporary Twin Studies
- Challenges to Received Wisdom
- Severity as an Indicator of Genetic Loading
- Reprise: Old and New Twin Studies
- Understanding Discordance in Identical Twins
- Revitalizing Research on Discordant Twin Pairs
- Identical Twins Reared Apart
- The Offspring of Schizophrenic Twins
- Identical Quadruplets Concordant for Schizophrenia
- Conclusion
- Three Generations of Schizophrenia
- 7. Is Schizophrenia Contagious Psychologically?
- Adoption Strategies
- Heston's Adoption Study in Oregon
- The Evidence from Denmark
- A Meta-Analysis of Offspring Risk
- Who Raised Schizophrenic Adoptees? The Kety Strategy
- Wender's Cross-Fostering Research
- Adoption Strategies in Finland
- Overview of Adoption Results
- 8. The Role of Psychosocial and Environmental Stressors
- Acute and Persistent Life Events
- The "New Look" in Family Influences
- Obstetrical Complications and Other Somatic Risks
- Seek Simplicity and Distrust It
- Summary
- 9. Anguished Voices II: Personal Accounts of Family Members
- Making the Best of It
- A Father's Thoughts
- Confessions of a Schizophrenic's Daughter
- 10. Schizophrenia, Society, and Social Policy
- Patterns of Death and Physical Illness
- Criminality and Violence
- Sexuality, Marriage, Fertility, and Divorce
- Genetic Counseling
- Legal Constraints: Marriage, Immigration, and Sterilization
- The Nazi "Solution"
- A Parent's View on Enforcing Medication
- 11. The Big Picture
- Models as Maps: Where Are We and Where Do We Need to Go?
- Models for the Development of Schizophrenia: The Pathway from Genotype to Psychopathology
- Gene-Environment Models for the Transmission of Schizophrenia
- Summary
- Conclusions
- 12. What Next? The Decade of the Brain
- Neurobiology and Schizophrenia
- The Continuing Promise of Longitudinal High-Risk Studies
- Genetic Markers and Genetic Linkage
- Conclusions
- A Story to End the Story
- Giving Love ... and Schizophrenia
- References and Bibliography
- Name Index
- Subject Index