
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. | 457 downloads
- Historical Review of the Concept of Schizophrenia | Arieti, Silvano, M.D. | 422 downloads
- The Manifest Symptomatology | Arieti, Silvano, M.D. | 391 downloads
- The Diagnosis and Prognosis of Schizophrenia | Arieti, Silvano, M.D. | 465 downloads
- First Period: Early Childhood and Family Environment | Arieti, Silvano, M.D. | 387 downloads
- Second Period: Late Childhood | Arieti, Silvano, M.D. | 363 downloads
- Third Period: Adolescence and Early Adulthood | Arieti, Silvano, M.D. | 420 downloads
- Fourth Period: The Psychosis | Arieti, Silvano, M.D. | 438 downloads
- Patients Studied through Family Members | Arieti, Silvano, M.D. | 395 downloads
- Study of Catatonic Patients | Arieti, Silvano, M.D. | 370 downloads
- Study of Paranoid Patients | Arieti, Silvano, M.D. | 341 downloads
- Study of Hebephrenic Patients | Arieti, Silvano, M.D. | 355 downloads
- Postpartum Schizophrenic Psychoses | Arieti, Silvano, M.D. | 370 downloads
- Averted Schizophrenia | Arieti, Silvano, M.D. | 362 downloads
- The Break with Reality | Arieti, Silvano, M.D. | 419 downloads
- The Cognitive Transformation | Arieti, Silvano, M.D. | 415 downloads
- Disorders of Gesture, Action, and Volition | Arieti, Silvano, M.D. | 370 downloads
- Changes of the Body Image | Arieti, Silvano, M.D. | 452 downloads
- The Retreat from Society | Arieti, Silvano, M.D. | 411 downloads
- Creative Activities of Schizophrenic Patients | Arieti, Silvano, M.D. | 532 downloads
- Emotional Change and Expansion of Human Experience | Arieti, Silvano, M.D. | 310 downloads
- The First, or Initial, Stage | Arieti, Silvano, M.D. | 379 downloads
- The Second, or Advanced, Stage | Arieti, Silvano, M.D. | 387 downloads
- The Third, or Preterminal, Stage | Arieti, Silvano, M.D. | 387 downloads
- The Fourth, or Terminal, Stage | Arieti, Silvano, M.D. | 380 downloads
- Recapitulation and Interpretation of Schizophrenic Regression | Arieti, Silvano, M.D. | 364 downloads
- Heredity and Constitution in Schizophrenia | Arieti, Silvano, M.D. | 349 downloads
- The Biochemistry of Schizophrenia | Arieti, Silvano, M.D. | 388 downloads
- Endocrine and Cardiovascular Changes in Schizophrenia | Arieti, Silvano, M.D. | 352 downloads
- The Central Nervous System in Schizophrenia | Arieti, Silvano, M.D. | 376 downloads
- Epidemiology of Schizophrenia | Arieti, Silvano, M.D. | 371 downloads
- Transcultural Studies of Schizophrenia | Arieti, Silvano, M.D. | 346 downloads
- The Prevention of Schizophrenia | Arieti, Silvano, M.D. | 409 downloads
- The Choice of Treatment | Arieti, Silvano, M.D. | 387 downloads
- The Psychotherapeutic Approach to Schizophrenia | Arieti, Silvano, M.D. | 419 downloads
- Establishment of Relatedness | Arieti, Silvano, M.D. | 402 downloads
- Specific Solutions of Psychotic Mechanisms | Arieti, Silvano, M.D. | 365 downloads
- Psychodynamic Analysis | Arieti, Silvano, M.D. | 435 downloads
- Other Aspects of Psychotherapy | Arieti, Silvano, M.D. | 347 downloads
- Two Cases Treated with Intensive Psychotherapy | Arieti, Silvano, M.D. | 408 downloads
- Psychotherapy of Chronic Schizophrenia | Arieti, Silvano, M.D. | 425 downloads
- Drug Therapy | Arieti, Silvano, M.D. | 366 downloads
- Other Physical Therapies | Arieti, Silvano, M.D. | 376 downloads
- Syndromes Related to Schizophrenia | Arieti, Silvano, M.D. | 402 downloads
- The Concept of Schizophrenia | Arieti, Silvano, M.D. | 457 downloads
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