Schizophrenia and Related Syndromes

by P. J. McKenna

Overview

This new edition of Schizophrenia and Related Syndromes has been thoroughly updated and revised to provide an authoritative overview of the subject, including new chapters on the neurodevelopmental hypothesis, cognitive neuropsychology, and schizophrenia and personality.

Peter McKenna guides the reader through a vast amount of literature on schizophrenia plus related syndromes such as paranoia and schizoaffective disorder, providing detailed and in-depth, but highly readable, accounts of the key areas of research. The book describes the clinical features of schizophrenia and its causes and treatment, covering subjects such as:

• Aetiological factors in schizophrenia
• The neurodevelopmental theory of schizophrenia
• Neuroleptic drug treatment
• Paraphrenia and paranoia
• Childhood schizophrenia, autism and Asperger's syndrome

Schizophrenia and Related Syndromes will prove invaluable for psychiatrists and clinical psychologists in training and in practice. It will also be a useful guide for mental health professionals and researchers working in related fields.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781583919293
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/19/2007
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	536
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

P. J. McKenna is a psychiatrist specialising in the treatment of schizophrenia and has published widely on the neuropsychology of schizophrenia. He has worked as both a clinician and academic and is currently Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Glasgow.

Table of Contents

David, Foreword. Preface to the second edition. Preface to the first edition. The cardinal symptoms of schizophrenia. The clinical pictures of schizophrenia. The natural history of schizophrenia. The diagnosis of schizophrenia. Aetiological factors in schizophrenia. The neurochemistry of schizophrenia. The neurodevelopmental theory of schizophrenia. The psychology and neuropsychology of schizophrenia. The cognitive neuropsychology of schizophrenia. Neuroleptic drug treatment. The management of schizophrenia. Paraphrenia and paranoia. Schizoaffective and other atypical psychoses. Schizophrenia and organic brain disease. Childhood schizophrenia, autism and Asperger’s syndrome. Schizophrenia and personality

Editorial Reviews

This is an interesting and comprehensive new monograph written by a British author covering schizophrenia and schizophrenia-spectrum disorders. "The purpose, as stated by the author, is to follow in Fish's footsteps and provide a clinically oriented account of schizophrenia suitable for the general psychiatrist, particularly the trainee psychiatrist. The author very much met his goal in this phenomenologically clinical-research oriented monograph. "The intended audience for this monograph is practicing psychiatrists, psychiatry residents, trainees in behavioral neurology and neuropsychiatry, schizophrenia researchers, and nonphysician mental health workers who care for patients with schizophrenia. The monograph's list price is $85.00 and well worth it! "It is divided into 13 chapters and includes topics such as the cardinal symptoms of schizophrenia, the clinical picture, the natural history, the diagnosis, etiological factors pathogenesis, the psychology and neuropsychology, neuroleptic drug treatment, management, paraphrenia and paranoia, schizoaffective and other atypical psychoses, schizophrenia and organic brain disease, childhood schizophrenia, autism, and Asperger's syndrome. In each chapter the author beautifully describes the rich phenomenology of schizophrenia and related disorders and critically reviews the research from a historical perspective. The book is filled with helpful charts and tables. The index is also quite helpful and the references are voluminous and up-to-date. "This is an excellent, comprehensive, and up-to-date new monograph that essentially replaces and improves on Fish's Schizophrenia. No psychiatry resident should be trained in1994 without this monograph, and I can't imagine practicing psychiatry without knowing this stuff!

Michael J. Schrift