Schizotypal Personality - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521454220 ISBN 13: 9780521454223

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1995

Synopsis

This book is devoted to examining schizotypal personality and provides a comprehensive overview of our current knowledge. It includes reviews of genetics, neurodevelopment, assessment, psychophysiology, neuropsychology, and brain imaging. Central themes are the exploration of categorical and dimensional approaches to the understanding of schizotypal disorder and its relationship to schizophrenia, by some of the world's leading researchers. Valuable introductory and concluding chapters set in context the sometimes divergent opinions and findings presented by the book's contributors, and there are reviews of methodological issues and assessment schedules for the benefit of researchers in the field. In setting out to answer, from phenomenological, psychological and neurobiological perspectives, the fundamental question of what schizotypal disorder is and to develop coherent etiological models, this book will serve as an authoritative resource for clinicians and researchers interested in this major personality disorder.

About this title

Book Description:

This is the first book devoted to schizotypal personality. It provides a comprehensive overview of current knowledge from some of the world's leading researchers in the field, and includes reviews of genetics, neurodevelopment, assessment, psychophysiology, neuropsychology and brain imaging. It explores the categorical and dimensional approaches to the understanding of schizotypal disorder, and its relationship to schizophrenia, and reviews methodological issues. Seeking to define schizotypal disorder and to develop coherent etiological models, this book is an authoritative resource for clinicians and researchers interested in this major personality disorder.

About the Author:

Adrian Raine is University Professor and the Richard Perry Professor of Criminology, Psychiatry, and Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0521454220
• ISBN 13: 9780521454223
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 532
• Editor: Raine Adrian, Lencz Todd, Mednick Sarnoff A.