Full Description
This compelling book argues that all people with schizophrenia share a personality organization known as schizotypy. Presented is a novel framework for understanding schizophrenia through the study of individuals who may never develop the disorder, but who nonetheless harbor a liability for it. Mark F. Lenzenweger comprehensively reviews current knowledge about schizotypy while exploring broader questions of how to think about and conduct psychopathology research, making the book useful and relevant for both researchers and students. He demonstrates state-of-the-art strategies for combining clinical observations, psychometric and psychophysiological measures, neuroimaging, and genetic analyses, and for analyzing the results using advanced statistical techniques.
Contents
I. Schizotypes and Schizotypy 1. "Welcome to the Machine" II. The Experimental Psychopathologist's Toolbox 2. Reliability, Validity, and How We Collect Data 3. Practical Tools and Pragmatic Issues 4. Analytic Heuristics, Caveats, and Soapbox Moments III. Schizotypy Viewed from the Laboratory 5. Recognizing the Schizotype 6. Begin with a Model 7. Genetics, Genomics, Phenotypes, and Endophenotypes: The Challenge of Complex Disease 8. Probing Critical Neurocognitive Endophenotypes: Attentional Dysfunction, Executive and Working Memory Functioning, Eye-Movement Dysfunction, and Thought Disorder 9. Motion and Touch: Simpler May Be Better 10. The Schizotype through Time... 11. Now, Just What about This "Type" Business in "Schizotype"? IV. Reactions, Reflections, and Projections 12. Thoughts on Impediments, Imaging, Environment, Intervention, and Innovation Appendix A. Summary Rating Sheet from Manual for Use with Checklist of Schizotypic Signs Appendix B. Selected Quantitative Measures of Schizotypy Appendix C. Getting Started: A Provisional Reading List
