Table of Contents
ABOUT THE AUTHORS ix
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS x
INTRODUCTION xi
SECTION ONE: WHAT IS THIS SCHIZOPHRENIA?
Chapter 1 Schizophrenia: What is it? 3
Chapter 2 Biological Disease or Psychological Problem? Who is Right? 13
Chapter 3 Why Young Men? What the Hell is Going On in Late Adolescence? 33
Chapter 4 Why Might Some People be Blocked? 51
Section Summary 60
SECTION TWO: PSYCHOSIS AND THE SELF
Chapter 5 The Crisis of the Adolescent Self 63
Chapter 6 The Mystery of the Self Why have it? What is it? 65
Chapter 7 The Potential and the Limit 73
Chapter 8 How is the Self Constructed? 77
Chapter 9 The Insecure Self (Le Neant) 79
Chapter 10 Alienated/Engulfed Self (Objectite') 83
Section Summary 90
SECTION THREE: PERSONAL ACCOUNTS
Chapter 11 How We Asked People to Give Their Personal Accounts 93
Chapter 12 Results I: Anger and Catastrophes 104
Chapter 13 Further Results: Linking Conflict Interactions to Symptoms 111
Chapter 14 Peer and Romantic Conflicts 133
Section Summary 144
SECTION FOUR: WHAT CAN BE DONE? THERAPEUTIC IDEAS
Chapter 15 “Character-based” Training 151
Chapter 16 Overcoming Interpersonal Blocks to Self-construction 168
Chapter 17 Overcoming Symptoms 186
Section Summary 201
Concluding Remarks 202
Appendix The Self and Other Scale 203
References 205
Author Index 217
Subject Index 221
