Why Does Schizophrenia Develop at Late Adolescence?: A Cognitive-Developmental Approach to Psychosis

ABOUT THE AUTHORS ix

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS x

INTRODUCTION xi

SECTION ONE: WHAT IS THIS SCHIZOPHRENIA?

Chapter 1 Schizophrenia: What is it? 3

Chapter 2 Biological Disease or Psychological Problem? Who is Right? 13

Chapter 3 Why Young Men? What the Hell is Going On in Late Adolescence? 33

Chapter 4 Why Might Some People be Blocked? 51

Section Summary 60

SECTION TWO: PSYCHOSIS AND THE SELF

Chapter 5 The Crisis of the Adolescent Self 63

Chapter 6 The Mystery of the Self Why have it? What is it? 65

Chapter 7 The Potential and the Limit 73

Chapter 8 How is the Self Constructed? 77

Chapter 9 The Insecure Self (Le Neant) 79

Chapter 10 Alienated/Engulfed Self (Objectite') 83

Section Summary 90

SECTION THREE: PERSONAL ACCOUNTS

Chapter 11 How We Asked People to Give Their Personal Accounts 93

Chapter 12 Results I: Anger and Catastrophes 104

Chapter 13 Further Results: Linking Conflict Interactions to Symptoms 111

Chapter 14 Peer and Romantic Conflicts 133

Section Summary 144

SECTION FOUR: WHAT CAN BE DONE? THERAPEUTIC IDEAS

Chapter 15 “Character-based” Training 151

Chapter 16 Overcoming Interpersonal Blocks to Self-construction 168

Chapter 17 Overcoming Symptoms 186

Section Summary 201

Concluding Remarks 202

Appendix The Self and Other Scale 203

References 205

Author Index 217

Subject Index 221