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Schizophrenia: Science, Psychoanalysis, and Culture

Author(s) : Kevin Volkan, Author(s) : Vamik D. Volkan

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Part I: Schizophrenia: Epidemiology, causes, neurobiology, pathophysiology
Chapter 1: Introduction and overview of schizophrenia
Chapter 2: Causes of schizophrenia
Chapter 3: Neurobiology of schizophrenia
Chapter 4: Brain structure and schizophrenia
Chapter 5: Cognition and schizophrenia
Chapter 6: Social-cognitive and emotional recognition impairment in schizophrenia
Chapter 7: Treatment of schizophrenia
Chapter 8: Non-psychodynamic therapeutic approaches to treating schizophrenia
Chapter 9: Recovery from schizophrenia
Chapter 10: Prevention of schizophrenia

Part II: The psychoanalytic metapsychology of schizophrenia
Chapter 11: Neuropsychoanalysis and schizophrenia
Chapter 12: Early psychoanalytic approaches to understanding schizophrenia
Chapter 13: A review of object relations and severe psychopathology
Chapter 14: Schizophrenic etiology and organismal panic
Chapter 15: The infantile psychotic self
Chapter 16: Flawed ingredients
Chapter 17: Fates of infantile psychotic selves

Part III: Psychoanalytic approaches to treating schizophrenia
Chapter 18: Psychodynamic approaches to treating schizophrenia
Chapter 19: Psychoanalytic treatment of adult schizophrenia
Chapter 20: Fusing-disconnecting and internalization-externalization cycles
Chapter 21: Development of a steady identification with the “good” analyst
Chapter 22: “Sophisticated” identifications and externalizations
Chapter 23: Permanent elimination of the infantile psychotic self
Chapter 24: Oedipal issues and superego identifications

Part IV: Cultural elements in schizophrenia
Chapter 25: Schizophrenia and culture
Chapter 26: Causes and beliefs about schizophrenia
Chapter 27: Object relations and culture
Chapter 28: Culture-bound schizophrenia
Chapter 29: Psychoanalysis and syndromes of culture-bound schizophrenia

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