Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-279) and index.
Contents
Assumptions and logic underlying the dissociative subtype of schizophrenia -- Characteristics of the dissociative subtype of schizophrenia -- Definitions of psychosis and schizophrenia -- The genetic model of schizophrenia -- The efficacy of antipsychotic medication -- Psychosis and trauma -- Definition and scientific status of dissociation -- Dissociation and trauma -- Dissociative identity disorder -- Bleuler's description of schizophrenia -- Positive symptoms in schizophrenia and dissociative identity disorder -- Case examples of dissociative schizophrenia -- Hysterical and reactive psychoses -- Proposed diagnostic criteria for dissociative schizophrenia -- Treatment outcome data -- Principles of psychotherapy for dissociative schizophrenia -- Talking to the voices.