Findings from three additional centers—Groningen, Netherlands; Mannheim, Germany; and
Sofia, Bulgaria—where cohorts were followed for 14 to 16 years, are reviewed in a third …

PSYCHOSOCIAL rehabilitation often remains entrapped within a restrictive definition. It is
characterized by a normative orientation, which predetermines the objectives to achieve …

Mr. J is a 43-year-old man who has suffered for over 20 years from schizophrenia. He has
been in psychiatric hospitals eight times and has had recurrent and severe psychotic …

The concept of schizophrenia as a chronic, deteriorating disease is examined from historical
and nosological perspectives. Diagnostic systems as exemplified in the series of APA …

THE TYPES OF recovery from an acute schizophrenic break are manifold: one patient"
returns" to reality and walks away as if untouched; another despairs for months about" losing …

Psychiatric rehabilitation had its origins in the late 1940's in New York when a group of
former State mental hospital patients called We Are Not Alone (WANA) began meeting on …

In the 100 years since Eugen Bleuler unveiled his concept of schizophrenia, which had
dissociation at its core, the essential connection between traumatic life events, dissociative …

This article summarizes the research literature documenting the high prevalence of
psychological trauma, including childhood sexual and physical abuse, among people …

Seclusion and restraint represent adverse experiences that cause negative attitudes against
psychiatric treatment and psychopathologic sequels such as posttraumatic stress disorder …

AIM: Schizophrenia enormously impacts the lives of the patients who have this psychiatric
disorder. This study addresses the lived experience of grief in schizophrenia. METHOD: A …