Schizotypy: Implications for Illness and Health

by Gordon Claridge

Overview

The central theme of this book presents a challenging and controversial new view of psychosis—that the features of psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia actually lie on a continuum with, and form part of, normal behavior and experience. The dispositional or "schizotypal" traits associated with psychotic disorders, while increasing one's chances for mental illness, also lead to positive outcomes such as enhanced creativity or spiritual experience. Each aspect of this theme is supported by extensive experimental and clinical evidence, questioning the conventional medical wisdom that treats psychotic illness in the narrow context of neurological disease. The result is an authoritative and provocative overview of an important topic in psychological research and clinical practice.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198523536
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	07/10/1997
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	354
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 9.50(h) x 0.98(d)

About the Author

Oxford University

Table of Contents

1. Theoretical Background, Gordon Claridge2. Questionnaire Measurement, Oliver Mason, Gordon Claridge and Leanne Williams3. Investigations of Cognitive Inhibitory Processes in Schizotypy and Schizophrenia, Leanne Williams and Anthony Beech4. Semantic Activation and Preconscious Processing in Schizophrenia and Schizoptypy, Julie L. Evans5. Brain, Self, and Others: The Neuropsychology of Social Cognition, Paul Broks6. Latent Inhibition: Relevance to the Neural Substrates of Schizophrenia and Schizotypy?, Helen J. Cassady7. Schizotypy and Cerebral Lateralisation, A.J. Richardson, Oliver Mason and Gordon Claridge8. Dyslexia and Schizotypy, A.J. Richardson9. Schizotypy and Obsessive-compulsive Disorder, Simon Enright and Anthony Beech10. Benign Schizotypy?: The Case of Spiritual Experience, Michael Jackson11. Hallucinations and Arousability: Pointers to a Theory of Psychosis, Charles McCreery12. Creativity and Schizotypy, J.H. Brod13. Final Remarks and Future Directions, Gordon Claridge