Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Describing schizophrenic speech
- 2 Thought disorder as a syndrome in schizophrenia
- 3 The differential diagnosis of thought disorder
- 4 Thought disorder as a form of dysphasia
- 5 Thought disorder and communicative competence
- 6 Thought disorder as a dysexecutive phenomenon
- 7 The dyssemantic hypothesis of thought disorder
- 8 Some conclusions and a few speculations
- References
- Index
Preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 August 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Describing schizophrenic speech
- 2 Thought disorder as a syndrome in schizophrenia
- 3 The differential diagnosis of thought disorder
- 4 Thought disorder as a form of dysphasia
- 5 Thought disorder and communicative competence
- 6 Thought disorder as a dysexecutive phenomenon
- 7 The dyssemantic hypothesis of thought disorder
- 8 Some conclusions and a few speculations
- References
- Index
Summary
If ever there were a preface that ought to start with the words ‘Why another book on …’, this is probably it. Thought disorder is the most studied symptom of a much-studied disorder, schizophrenia, and there has been a long tradition of punctuating the steady stream of publications on the subject with books. There may be some justification for continuing this tradition, in that the last single-author book on the topic was written in 1990, and, while there have been one or two multi-author volumes since then, it is fair to say that neither of these caught the tide of two major developments in the field. One of these was the wave of clinical studies that followed the introduction of Andreasen's rating scale for what she called thought, language and communication disorders; the second has been the rise of the neuropsychological approach to schizophrenia.
Naturally, neither of these developments was the reason for writing this particular book, which had more maculate origins. It grew out of our attempts to get a paper based on the research in a Ph.D. published. After engaging in the usual titanic struggle with the reviewers, one of us said to the other in a flash of exasperation that the only way we would ever get the damn thing into print was by writing a book on thought disorder and putting the paper in it somewhere.
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- Schizophrenic SpeechMaking Sense of Bathroots and Ponds that Fall in Doorways, pp. ix - xPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2005