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Social Cognition and Schizophrenia
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In Social Cognition and Schizophrenia, editors Patrick W. Corrigan and David L. Penn present a theoretically important and clinically relevant frame for better understanding this thought disorder, which commonly wreaks havoc on all areas of functioning. While schizophrenia has long been understood to be both a cognitive disorder and a social one, integrating social and cognitive research approaches has not been simple. How, exactly, do deficits in attention, memory, or executive functioning affect problem-solving, assertiveness, or dating skills? How does interpersonal interaction affect cognitive ability?
This fascinating book examines how persons with schizophrenia understand and respond to their world. Unlike numbers, words, objects, or other "non-social" stimuli, social stimuli are abstract, fluid, immediate, reciprocal, fraught with personal meaning. While the ordinary person may have no trouble differentiating between the meaning of laughter in response to a joke and that in response to a social faux pas, the person with schizophrenia may find it quite challenging. The ability to extract meaning from social stimuli requires a level of semantic processing that may be deficient in persons with schizophrenia. Furthermore, a person's relationship to social stimuli is interactive, requiring a cultural familiarity that persons with schizophrenia often lack as a result of their isolation from others.
This volume brings together the cutting-edge work of distinguished psychologists from Britain, Australia, and the U.S. who have developed and tested social cognitive models of schizophrenia. Here, they demonstrate how this paradigm holds promise for bridging the gap between lab-based tasks and real-world behavior, and for shedding light on the development, course and outcome of schizophrenia.
Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Framing Models of Social Cognition and Schizophrenia
—Patrick W. Corrigan and David L. Penn
I. Basic Theory and Concepts
- What is "Social Cognition"? Four Basic Approaches and Their Implications for Schizophrenia Research
—Leonard S. Newman - Social Perception in Schizophrenia
—Christoph Leonhard and Patrick W. Corrigan - Social Cognition and Social Functioning in Schizophrenia
—David L. Penn, Dennis Combs, and Somaia Mohamed - Social Cognition and Delusional Beliefs
—Richard P. Bentall - Theory of Mind and Schizophrenia
—Rhiannon Corcoran - Do Stereotype Threats Influence Social Cognitive Deficits in Schizophrenia?
—Patrick W. Corrigan and Kevin L. Holtzman
II. Clinical Applications
- Changing Causal Attributions
—Peter Kinderman - Cognitive Rehabilitation for Schizophrenia: Enhancing Social Cognition by Strengthening Neurocognitive Functioning
—William D. Spaulding and Jeffrey S. Poland - Cognitively Oriented Psychotherapy for Early Psychosis: Theory, Praxis, Outcomes, and Challenges
—Henry J. Jackson, Patrick D. McGory, and Jane Edwards - Object-Relations and Reality-Testing Deficits in Schizophrenia
—Morris D. Bell
III. Future Directions
- Social Cognition in Schizophrenia: Answered and Unanswered Questions
—David L. Penn and Patrick W. Corrigan
Author Index
Subject Index
About the Editors