Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- PART I INTRODUCTION: THE EXPERIENCE OF PSYCHOPATHOLOGY
- PART II THE EXPERIENCE SAMPLING METHOD: PROCEDURES AND ANALYSES
- PART III EXPERIENCE SAMPLING STUDIES WITH CLINICAL SAMPLES
- 7 Variability of schizophrenia symptoms
- 8 The daily life of ambulatory chronic mental patients
- 9 ‘Goofed-up’ images: thought sampling with a schizophrenic woman
- 10 The social ecology of anxiety: theoretical and quantitative perspectives
- 11 Consequences of depression for the experience of anxiety in daily life
- 12 Dysphoric moods in depressed and non-depressed adolescents
- 13 Capturing alternate personalities: the use of Experience Sampling in multiple personality disorder
- 14 Bulimia in daily life: a context-bound syndrome
- 15 Alcohol and marijuana use in adolescents' daily lives
- 16 Drug craving and drug use in the daily life of heroin addicts
- 17 Stress, coping and cortisol dynamics in daily life
- 18 Vital exhaustion or depression: a study of daily mood in exhausted male subjects at risk for myocardial infarction
- 19 Blood pressure and behavior: mood, activity and blood pressure in daily life
- PART IV THERAPEUTIC APPLICATIONS OF THE EXPERIENCE SAMPLING METHOD
- PART V PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH APPLICATIONS: PRACTICAL ISSUES and ATTENTION POINTS
- CLOSING Looking to the future
- References
- List of contributors
- Index
7 - Variability of schizophrenia symptoms
from PART III - EXPERIENCE SAMPLING STUDIES WITH CLINICAL SAMPLES
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 May 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- PART I INTRODUCTION: THE EXPERIENCE OF PSYCHOPATHOLOGY
- PART II THE EXPERIENCE SAMPLING METHOD: PROCEDURES AND ANALYSES
- PART III EXPERIENCE SAMPLING STUDIES WITH CLINICAL SAMPLES
- 7 Variability of schizophrenia symptoms
- 8 The daily life of ambulatory chronic mental patients
- 9 ‘Goofed-up’ images: thought sampling with a schizophrenic woman
- 10 The social ecology of anxiety: theoretical and quantitative perspectives
- 11 Consequences of depression for the experience of anxiety in daily life
- 12 Dysphoric moods in depressed and non-depressed adolescents
- 13 Capturing alternate personalities: the use of Experience Sampling in multiple personality disorder
- 14 Bulimia in daily life: a context-bound syndrome
- 15 Alcohol and marijuana use in adolescents' daily lives
- 16 Drug craving and drug use in the daily life of heroin addicts
- 17 Stress, coping and cortisol dynamics in daily life
- 18 Vital exhaustion or depression: a study of daily mood in exhausted male subjects at risk for myocardial infarction
- 19 Blood pressure and behavior: mood, activity and blood pressure in daily life
- PART IV THERAPEUTIC APPLICATIONS OF THE EXPERIENCE SAMPLING METHOD
- PART V PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH APPLICATIONS: PRACTICAL ISSUES and ATTENTION POINTS
- CLOSING Looking to the future
- References
- List of contributors
- Index
Summary
The issue of mental state variability is central to the understanding of psychiatric pathology in general and schizophrenia in particular. Historically, psychiatry has been interested in these phenomena. Kahlbaum (1863), Kraepelin (1896) and Bleuler (1911) about a century ago, richly described the symptoms and course of schizophrenia. Since then, theorizing and studies of schizophrenia have been varied and many, but currently researchers tend to avoid phenomenological descriptions. Only a small group has investigated the actual course, changes, stages and fluctuations in schizophrenia (Strauss et al., 1985). Even less is known about fluctuations of symptoms, mood, thought and behavior in real-life situations, although these issues are the bread and butter concerns of clinical psychiatry.
Currently biological formulations receive much attention in schizophrenia research. Most studies emerging from prominent institutes use new diagnostic techniques such as MRI, PET scans, and CBF that promise to bring to fruition the search for functional and anatomical abnormalities in schizophrenia. Epidemiological researchers ponder issues such as cross-national prevalence differences and unequally distributed birth rate frequencies over the months of the year, of persons developing schizophrenia later in life. Psychological scholars focus on intellectual and cognitive factors such as loss of abstracting ability, perception and attention difficulties, and problems with faulty associations and thinking, all of which are tied to slow learning and adaptive liability (Rabin et al., 1979). These studies have enhanced our knowledge of schizophrenic symptomatology.
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- The Experience of PsychopathologyInvestigating Mental Disorders in their Natural Settings, pp. 97 - 109Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1992
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