Schizophrenia : a review of the syndrome / Leopold Bellak.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bellak, Leopold, 1916-2000, author.

Series:

Logos publication in behavioral science

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Schizophrenia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 1010 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

New York : Logos Press, 1958.

Summary:

An extensive review of the "primarily 1946 to 1956" literature featuring discussions of the schizophrenic syndrome (L. Bellak); Vital Statistics (P. V. Lemkau & G. M. Crocetti); Etiology, Pathogenesis, and Pathology (W. Overholser & S. L. Werkman); Diagnosis and Symptomatology (H. Weiner); Physiological Studies and Tranquilizers (H. Freeman); Psychological Studies (A. I. Rubin & G. F. King); Psychoanalytic and Psychotherapeutic Aspects (L. Bellak & A. B. Blaustein); Somatic Treatments (P. H. Hoch & H. H. Pennes); Psychosurgery (N. L. Paul & M. Greenblatt); Prognosis (P. H. Houston & M. C. Pepernick); Complications and Sequelae (K. E. Appel, J. M. Myers, & H. H. Morris); Childhood Schizophrenia (R. Ekstein, K. Bryant, & S. M. Friedman); Socio-cultural Factors and Special Aspects (P. K. Benedict). 192-page bibliography.

Contents:

The schizophrenic syndrome: A further elaboration of the unified theory of schizophrenia

Vital statistics of schizophrenia

Etiology, pathogenesis, and pathology

Diagnosis and symptomatology

Physiological studies

Psychological studies

Psychoanalytic aspects of schizophrenia

General psychotherapy, group therapy, and allied methods

Insulin shock treatment

Electric convulsive treatment and its modifications

Miscellaneous somatic treatments: The relationship of somatic therapy to psychotherapy

The tranquilizing drugs

Psychosurgery and schizophrenia

Prognosis in schizophrenia

Complications, sequelae, and terminal states

Childhood schizophrenia and allied conditions

Socio-cultural factors in schizophrenia

Special aspects of schizophrenia.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.