Models of Madness:
Psychological, Social and Biological Approaches to Schizophrenia

Contents

PART I
The illness model of `schizophrenia’

1 ‘Schizophrenia’ is not an illness
JOHN READ, LOREN R. MOSHER AND RICHARD P. BENTALL

2 A history of madness
JOHN READ

3 The invention of `schizophrenia’
JOHN READ

4 Genetics, eugenics and mass murder
JOHN READ AND JEFFREY MASSON

5 Does `schizophrenia’ exist? Reliability and validity
JOHN READ

6 Biological psychiatry’s lost cause
JOHN READ

7 Schizophrenia and heredity: why the emperor has no genes
JAY JOSEPH

8 Electroconvulsive therapy
JOHN READ

9 Antipsychotic medication: myths and facts
COLIN A. ROSS AND JOHN READ

10 Drug companies and schizophrenia: unbridled capitalism meets madness
LOREN R. MOSHER, RICHARD GOSDEN AND SHARON BEDER

PART II
Social and psychological approaches to understanding madness 131

11 Public opinion: bad things happen and can drive you crazy
JOHN READ AND NICK HASLAM

12 Listening to the voices we hear: clients’ understandings
of psychotic experiences
JIM GEEKIE

13 Poverty, ethnicity and gender
JOHN READ

14 Abandoning the concept of schizophrenia: the cognitive psychology of hallucinations and delusions
RICHARD P. BENTALL

15 Psychodynamic psychotherapy of schizophrenia: its history and development
ANN-LOUISE SILVER, BRIAN KOEHLER AND BERTRAM KARON

16 Childhood trauma, loss and stress
JOHN READ, LISA GOODMAN, ANTHONY P. MORRISON, COLIN A. ROSS AND VOLKMAR ADERHOLD

17 Unhappy families
JOHN READ, FRED SEYMOUR AND LOREN R. MOSHER

PART III
Evidence-based psycho-social interventions

18 Preventing `schizophrenia': creating the conditions for saner societies
EMMA DAVIES AND JIM BURDETT

19 User-run services
JUDI CHAMBERLIN

20 Cognitive therapy for people with psychosis
ANTHONY P. MORRISON

21 Psychodynamic psychotherapy for schizophrenia empirical support
WILLIAM H. GOTTDIENER

22 The development of early intervention services
JAN OLAV JOHANNESSEN

23 Family therapy and schizophrenia: replacing ideology with openness
VOLKMAR ADERHOLD AND EVELIN GOTTWALZ

24 Non-hospital, non-drug intervention with first-episode psychosis
LOREN R. MOSHER