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Schizophrenia (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1981)
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Schizophrenia (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1981)
Series: Critical Issues in Psychiatry
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When Ifirst read this manuscript, Iexclaimed to a colleague: "This
is the most important and clinically relevant book on schizophrenia
since Bleuler " Time has not altered my initial enthusiastic
evaluation. Drs. Strauss and Carpenter are among the most
distinguished researchers in the field ofschizophrenia, butthey are
also clinicians ofgreat experience, breadth, sensitivity, and
flexibility. It is from this expertise, as well as theirwide
familiarity with the world literature, thattheyhavebeenable to
distill the essence of an exceedingly practical and comprehensive
approach to the understanding, evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment
of schizophrenia. They begin by unequivocally stating the
inadequacy and futility of approaching schizophrenia via a single
model. Standingalone, neither a biomedical, a social, nor a
psychological model can adequately account for the complexities of
this illness with regard to etiology, phenomenol ogy, course, or
optimum treatment. While the advent of psychophar
macologicalinterventionhas made a profound impact on both
individual treatment and the responsive support systems, and is an
important aspect ofmosttreatmentplans, to view schizophrenia as a
phenothiazine deficiency disease is not only bad science but bad
therapeutics. Their conceptualization of an "interactive
developmental systems model" provides a framework upon which to
build a broad medical approach to schizophrenia. This model relates
variables drawn from different systems, interactive with one
another, and contributing to a pathogenetic process across time.
Within this bio-social-psychological matrix, one can then organize
information relative to vulnerability, the manifest illness per se,
the course of the disorder, and the multiplicity of factors
relative to treatment planning."
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