Schizophrenia : innovations in diagnosis and treatment / Colin A. Ross.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A statement of the problem--PART1: A Dissociative subtype of schizophrenia:- 1. Assumptions and Logic Underlying the Dissociative Subtype of Schizophrenia:- A model of gene-environment interaction-- Implications of monozygotic twin data--The triangle of recovery--2. Characteristics of the dissociative subtype of Schizophrenia:- The spectrum from nondissociative subtypes of schizophrenia to dissociative identity disorder--PART 2: Psychosis and Schizophrenia:- 3. Definitions of psychosis and schizophrenia:- DSM-IV-TR Definition of psychosis--DSM-IV-TR Text and Criteria for Schizophrenia--4. The Genetic Model of Schizophrenia:- The genome as a minor contributor to the causes of schizophrenia--Evidence for the toxic and protective effects of the psychosocial environment-- 5. The Efficacy of Antipsychotic Medication --6. Psychosis and Trauma:- Childhood trauma and general psychopathology--The base rate of child abuse among psychiatric inpatients--Childhood trauma and psychosis--Failure of most research on shcizophrenia to consider psychological trauma--PART 3: Dissociation and dissociative identity disorder: 7. Definition and scientific status of dissociation:- Errors of logic and shcolarship concerning dissociation--Diagnosis of dissociative identity disorder--General errors of logic and scholarshiip--8. Dissociation and Trauma:- A continuum of dissociation versus discrete pathological states--The trauma-dissociation model--9. Dissociative Identity Disorder:- Reliability and validity--Etiology--Epidemiology--Phenomenology--PART 4: Dissociative identity disorder and schizophrenia: 10. Bleuler\'s description of schizophrenia:- Analysis of Bleuler\'s 1911 text on schizophrenia--The fundamental role of dissociation in schizophrenia--11. Positive symptoms in schizophrenia and dissociative identity disorder:- Distinction between schizophrenia and DID in the schizophrenia literature--Data on the overlap between schizophrenia and DID--A prospective study of the dissociative subtype of schizophrenia--12. Case examples of dissociative schizophrenia:- From August Hoch, MD--From Sheila Cantor, MD--From Patricia J. Ruocchiio--From Barbara A. Turner--From Janice C. Jordan--From Leslie Greenblat--13. Hysterical and Reactive Psychoses--14. Proposed diagnostic criteria for dissociative schizophrenia:- 295.40 dissociative type--Diagnostic criteria for 295.40 dissociative type--PART 5: Treatment: 15. Treatment outcome data:- Subjects and Treatment Provided--Methodological limitations of the study--Limitations of the literature--Treatment outcomes--16. Principles of psychotherapy for dissociative shcizophrenia:- Principles of trauma therapy--17. Talking to the voices.

Colin Ross presents a new theory of the existence of a dissociative subtype of schizophrenia related to psychological trauma, than can be treated with psychotherapy as opposed to medications.