Interpretation of Schizophrenia
Publisher: Basic Books, Inc.
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This work has been hailed by reviewers as a “work of great importance”, a “monumental work that will have profound and lingering influence on all students concerned with an understanding of schizophrenia” and “the most comprehensive presentation of the subject since that of Bleuler in 1911.” Some of the outstanding sections are: the psychodynamic mechanisms of childhood and adolescence, the structural analysis of schizophrenic thought and language, and the development of the catatonic process. (1373 pp.)
Reviews:
“I am overwhelmed with the completeness of this volume of Arieti’s. I suppose there is no one who knows more about this subject than does he. If there is someone, I don’t know him. This major work of Arieti’s, thirty-three years in the making, gives enlightened evidence of our vastly increased knowledge of schizophrenia. It breathes a sense of optimism and states that present-day understanding is sufficient to permit a totally successful treatment of many patients and a marked amelioration of others. This is the work of a master craftsman. It is a ‘must.'”
—Frances J Braceland M.D., Editor American Journal of Psychiatry
“A monumental and definitive study of what is known and conjectured about schizophrenia—remarkable both for its scientific content and profound humanism. No one who reads Dr. Arieti’s book will go away unmoved. The human mind is a strange and mysterious continent and Dr. Arieti has illuminated some of its darkest parts.”
—1975 National Book Award for Science
“I find the book exceedingly valuable. It is characterized by astute clinical observation and rich experience in devoted work. It is highly informative, stimulating, and useful in clinical practice. It also points the way toward future studies and ways to deepen our understanding of schizophrenia in the future. All of us who care about the welfare of schizophrenic patients are in Arieti’s debt.
—David Hamburg M.D., Reed-Hodgson Professor of Human Biology
Department of Psychiatry, Stanford University
“Every serious student of the schizophrenic processes will wish to read Dr. Silvano Arieti’s Interpretation of Schizophrenia. It brings forward Dr. Arieti’s own accumulated experiences in working with the schizophrenic over the past years, his recording of new knowledge derived from the work of others, its weighing and assessment against those hypotheses formulated by himself. The author’s knowledge of the schizophrenic shines through. He is one of the few to concern himself with the formal aspects of schizophrenic though. In this edition he discusses teleologic regression, pathological though, and, as he sees it, the transference of ordinarily held abstract ideation into concrete representations. His chapter on the now rare catatonics is outstanding, presenting as it does … extraordinarily interesting case reports. For those most concerned with treatment, his discussions and recommendations as to psychotherapy will be found refreshing. There is little left out in this monumental work.
—Lawrence Kolb M.D. Director, Department of Mental Hygiene
New York State Psychiatric Institution
Chapter eBooks
- The Basic Questions | Arieti, Silvano, M.D. | 1322 downloads
- Historical Review of the Concept of Schizophrenia | Arieti, Silvano, M.D. | 1289 downloads
- The Manifest Symptomatology | Arieti, Silvano, M.D. | 1224 downloads
- The Diagnosis and Prognosis of Schizophrenia | Arieti, Silvano, M.D. | 1380 downloads
- First Period: Early Childhood and Family Environment | Arieti, Silvano, M.D. | 1199 downloads
- Second Period: Late Childhood | Arieti, Silvano, M.D. | 1227 downloads
- Third Period: Adolescence and Early Adulthood | Arieti, Silvano, M.D. | 1266 downloads
- Fourth Period: The Psychosis | Arieti, Silvano, M.D. | 1333 downloads
- Patients Studied through Family Members | Arieti, Silvano, M.D. | 1236 downloads
- Study of Catatonic Patients | Arieti, Silvano, M.D. | 1251 downloads
- Study of Paranoid Patients | Arieti, Silvano, M.D. | 1185 downloads
- Study of Hebephrenic Patients | Arieti, Silvano, M.D. | 1171 downloads
- Postpartum Schizophrenic Psychoses | Arieti, Silvano, M.D. | 1212 downloads
- Averted Schizophrenia | Arieti, Silvano, M.D. | 1171 downloads
- The Break with Reality | Arieti, Silvano, M.D. | 1238 downloads
- The Cognitive Transformation | Arieti, Silvano, M.D. | 1287 downloads
- Disorders of Gesture, Action, and Volition | Arieti, Silvano, M.D. | 1192 downloads
- Changes of the Body Image | Arieti, Silvano, M.D. | 1377 downloads
- The Retreat from Society | Arieti, Silvano, M.D. | 1237 downloads
- Creative Activities of Schizophrenic Patients | Arieti, Silvano, M.D. | 1413 downloads
- Emotional Change and Expansion of Human Experience | Arieti, Silvano, M.D. | 1161 downloads
- The First, or Initial, Stage | Arieti, Silvano, M.D. | 1202 downloads
- The Second, or Advanced, Stage | Arieti, Silvano, M.D. | 1173 downloads
- The Third, or Preterminal, Stage | Arieti, Silvano, M.D. | 1287 downloads
- The Fourth, or Terminal, Stage | Arieti, Silvano, M.D. | 1189 downloads
- Recapitulation and Interpretation of Schizophrenic Regression | Arieti, Silvano, M.D. | 1248 downloads
- Heredity and Constitution in Schizophrenia | Arieti, Silvano, M.D. | 1158 downloads
- The Biochemistry of Schizophrenia | Arieti, Silvano, M.D. | 1240 downloads
- Endocrine and Cardiovascular Changes in Schizophrenia | Arieti, Silvano, M.D. | 1151 downloads
- The Central Nervous System in Schizophrenia | Arieti, Silvano, M.D. | 1291 downloads
- Epidemiology of Schizophrenia | Arieti, Silvano, M.D. | 1162 downloads
- Transcultural Studies of Schizophrenia | Arieti, Silvano, M.D. | 1144 downloads
- The Prevention of Schizophrenia | Arieti, Silvano, M.D. | 1341 downloads
- The Choice of Treatment | Arieti, Silvano, M.D. | 1293 downloads
- The Psychotherapeutic Approach to Schizophrenia | Arieti, Silvano, M.D. | 1374 downloads
- Establishment of Relatedness | Arieti, Silvano, M.D. | 1366 downloads
- Specific Solutions of Psychotic Mechanisms | Arieti, Silvano, M.D. | 1226 downloads
- Psychodynamic Analysis | Arieti, Silvano, M.D. | 1304 downloads
- Other Aspects of Psychotherapy | Arieti, Silvano, M.D. | 1219 downloads
- Two Cases Treated with Intensive Psychotherapy | Arieti, Silvano, M.D. | 1294 downloads
- Psychotherapy of Chronic Schizophrenia | Arieti, Silvano, M.D. | 1331 downloads
- Drug Therapy | Arieti, Silvano, M.D. | 1246 downloads
- Other Physical Therapies | Arieti, Silvano, M.D. | 1371 downloads
- Syndromes Related to Schizophrenia | Arieti, Silvano, M.D. | 1338 downloads
- The Concept of Schizophrenia | Arieti, Silvano, M.D. | 1410 downloads
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