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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818657003321

Autore

Scrimali Tullio

Titolo

Entropy of mind and negative entropy : a cognitive and complex approach to schizophrenia and its therapy / / Tullio Scrimali ; preface by Arthur Freeman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Karnac, 2008

ISBN

0-429-91330-3

9780429896899

0-429-47430-X

1-283-07071-5

9786613070715

1-84940-662-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (642 p.)

Disciplina

616.89/8

616.8980651

Soggetti

Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia - Treatment

Psychology, Pathological

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 387-412).

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Copy Right; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Preface; Prologue: The Salt Works, Negentropic Machine; Introduction; PART ONE: MIND, BRAIN, ENTROPY; CHAPTER ONE: Cognitive Therapy and Schizophrenia: From Human Information Processing to the Logic of Complex Systems; CHAPTER TWO: On the Trail of the Entropy of Mind; PART TWO: ENTROPY OF MIND OR PHRENENTROPY; CHAPTER THREE: Etiology and Pathogenesis; CHAPTER FOUR: Psychopathology; PART THREE: NEGATIVE ENTROPY; CHAPTER FIVE;  Conceptualization, Diagnosis, Assessment; CHAPTER SIX: Prolegomena for Psychological Therapy of Schizophrenia

CHAPTER SEVEN: The Setting CHAPTER EIGHT: The Neuroleptics: Specific Therapy or Remedy for Symptoms?; CHAPTER NINE: Psychotherapy; CHAPTER TEN: Rehabilitation; CHAPTER ELEVEN: Prevention; CHAPTER TWELVE: The Prevention of Stigma; CHAPTER



THIRTEEN: Piero's Story; Epilogue: Perennial Possession; REFERENCES

Sommario/riassunto

Schizophrenia is the central problem in the sciences of the mind, not only for its etiological, psychopathological and clinical aspects, but also because of its implications for therapy and rehabilitation. In this volume the author describes a series of new scientific and clinical perspectives for schizophrenia influenced by cognitivist and constructivist approaches and informed by the logic of complexity and non-linear, dynamic systems.The author delineates a new complex theory of the brain and a procedural theory of the mind, founded on the concept of the modular brain and the coalitional