A Dimensional Approach to Schizotypy
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This timely volume explores the range of personality traits and psychosocial deficits which are associated with the broadly defined construct of schizotypy. Describing schizotypy as a phenomenon that can be located on a continuum ranging from sub-clinical states to severe disorders, the editors have brought together experts in this field to discuss approaches to assessment, conceptualization, and treatment. This volume aims to provide a unique and clinically oriented perspective on schizotypy as a feature of personality and psychopathology. An essential resource for professionals, researchers, and academics the reader will gain knowledge of:
- Underlying maladaptive traits that can emerge as schizotypy
- Dimensional and transdiagnostic approaches to psychopathology
- Relationship to metacognition, mentalizing, attachment, self-criticism and interpersonal criticism
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This remarkable book brings together many influential scholars under the general rubric of dimensional approaches to schizotypy and can thereby serve as a real boon to both scientists and practitioners. Coverage of the current literature is extensive, and goes well beyond schizotypy research per se. Indeed, focal research on schizotypy as a psychopathological phenomenon is covered thoroughly yet is only one aspect of a much more comprehensive volume. Robert F. Krueger - University of Minnesota, USASchizotypy generally represents a set of personality traits observable in the general population, as well as in patients prior to their first psychotic episode, and their nonschizophrenic relatives. Based on its ability to travel up and down the typical-to-atypical continuum, schizotypy has earned provisional status as an endophenotype on the path to schizophrenia, as well as being a useful model for understanding the dimensionalreconceptualization of the personality-psychopathology continuum. In this thoughtful edited volume, Cheli and Lysaker build on these foundations by bringing together leaders in the field of schizotypy, personality and schizophrenia with the goal of translating complex research findings into practical, useful and clinically relevant information. They succeed in this goal with masterful integration of the research and clinical literature highlighting transdiagnostic processes central to the human experience such as metacognition, mentalizing, attachment, self- and interpersonal criticism that can be targeted in treatment. The result is a ground-breaking volume that articulates a set of theoretically grounded and evidence-based clinical guidelines sensitive to the human experience beyond signs and symptoms. This book is a must-read for anyone working at the complex intersection of personality, psychopathology and psychosis. It conveys a compassionate yet empirically rich message of hope- not only that recovery is possible, but that clinicians can play a critical role in realizing it. -- Carla Sharp, Department of Psychology, University of Houston, Texas, USA
"A Dimensional Approach to Schizotypy" includes contributions from a number of researchers at the forefront of psychopathology and psychiatric nosology. The editors provide us with a 30,000-foot view of current-day schizotypy, accompanied by fascinating clinical theory and an updated discussion of transdiagnostic clinical implications. These chapters also include important new information on unique cultural perspectives, encouraging better representation of global populations, critical for the generalizability and public health impact of our research. Overall, these chapters will provide academic researchers and postgraduate students with a strong grasp of schizotypy within the framework of new and expanded nosologies. It will also appeal to clinicians considering the symptoms of schizotypy across the lifespan and across evidence-based therapy modalities. Beautifully presented and very informative, this book will be an important resource for early career trainees and established faculty alike . -- Anna Docherty, Department of Psychiatry, Huntsman Mental Health Institute, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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Simone Cheli , PhD is an adjunct professor at the St. John's University in Rome and founding director of Tages Onlus, a mental health charity located in Florence. A chartered psychologist, he is currently involved in testing a new integrative treatment for those struggling with schizotypal personality disorder, namely Evolutionary Systems Therapy for Schizotypy. His daily work is as therapist with persons diagnosed with personality disorders and psychosis.
Paul H. Lysaker, PhD is a Clinical Psychologist at the Richard L Roudebush VA Medical Center, Indianapolis, IN and a Professor of Clinical Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at the Indiana University School of Medicine. He has over 35 years of experience providing recovery oriented psychotherapy to adults diagnosed with a serious mental illness and is an author of over 500 peer reviewed articles.