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

Section One: What is this schizophrenia?

Schizophrenia: what is it?

Biological Disease or Psychological Problem? Who is right?

Why young men? What the hell is going on in late adolescence?

Why might some People be blocked?

Section Two: Psychosis and the Self.

The Crisis of the Adolescent Self.

The Mystery of Self: Why have it? What is it?

The Potential and the Limit.

How is the Self constructed?

The Insecure Self (Le Neant).

Section Three: Personal Accounts.

How we asked People to give their Personal Accounts.

Anger and Catastrophes.

Further results: Linking Conflict Interactions to Symptoms.

Peer and Romantic Conflicts.

Section Four: What can be done? Therapeutic Ideas.

'Character-based' training: de-idealising, egocentricity and theory of mind.

Overcoming Interpersonal Blocks to Self Construction.

Overcoming Symptoms.