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Reparenting Schizophrenics The Cathexis Experience

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ISBN-10: 0595131913

ISBN-13: 9780595131914

Edition: 2000

Authors: Elaine Childs-Gowell

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List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: iUniverse, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/20/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 276
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Preface
Introduction--Overview
Urban Anthropology
Culture and Personality: Medical
Anthropology (Ethnopsychiatry)
Schizophrenia--Psychopathology
Double-Bind
The Community
International Implications
Chapter Resume
Theoretical Issues
Evolutionary Structuralism
Ritual and Ritual Process
Symbols and Symbolic Language
Adaptation
Psychopathology
Cognition
Transformation
Language and Experience
Ritual Healing
Culture and Madness
Curanderismo
Psychiatry
Rites-of-Passage
The Human Potential Movement
Schools of Psychotherapy
Transactional Analysis
Definition
Historical Background
Membership
Transactional Analysis Theory
Basic framework
Script theory
Degree of damage
Decisions
Contracts
Structural analysis
The development of ego states
Treatment process
General Systems Theory
Closed and Open
Feedback Control Networks
Rites-of-Passage
Models
Methods
Introduction
Hypothesis Testing
Experimental Versus Experiential Data
Gathering
Psychological Data Collection Techniques
Diagnosis
Lattice of criteria
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual II
Transactional Analysis definition and diagnosis of schizophrenia
T.A. definition of schizophrenia
Problems of the definition of schizophrenia
Summary of diagnostic and definitional issues
The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
Semantic Differential Test
Life History Information and World View
Experiental Sources of Data
Participant-Observation
Culture Shock and Cognitive Dissonance
Recording, Taping, and Confidentiality
Personal Involvement
Summary
Cathexis: The Dialectic Between "Real" and "Not Real"
California Mystique
History of Cathexis Community
Contexts
The Cathexis Social Structure (Staff and Participants)
Philosophy of Cathexis
Physical Contexts
Theoretical Basis (The Transactional Analysis Model as Applied at Cathexis)
Temporal Contexts
Entering
Experiencing
"Healing and Dealing"
Responsibility--learning the "Deal"
Leaving the program
Transactional Contexts
Healing rituals
Thinking rituals
Think about feelings
Feeling rituals
Doing and Being rituals
Acting out
The Drop-In Center
Reparenting
Nurturing
Group therapy
House group
Marathon groups
Separation and isolation
Leveling and status stripping
The liminal phase
Peak experiences
Reintegration
Summary
Madness: In the Beginning and at the End
Interview Techniques
Schizophrenia as Psychopathology
The Cathexis Sample: Life Script Questionnaire and Interview Data
Cultural and Family Data
Relationships in the Family
Family World View
Mother
Fathers
Punishment
World View and Self Concept
Self System: The Scare
Self System: Life, Death, and Suicide
Self System: Dreams and Future
Self System: Body and Bodily Sensations
Views on Child-Rearing or "Crazy-Making"
Family Secrets
Real Versus Not Real
The Special Case of Hebephrenics
Expectations of Treatment at Cathexis
"I Am Less Crazy Now Than When I Started": A Year Later
Experiential Data
Process
A Personal Example of How Cathexis Reculturation
Affects Self Concepts, Etc.
The Cultural Interpretation in Cathexis Society
Differentiating Feelings
Seeing vs looking
The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory and the Semantic Differential Results
Minnesota Multiphasic Inventory
Clinical evaluations of MMPI
Minnesota Multiphasic Inventory Statistical Analysis
Semantic Differential Test Results
Evaluation
Potency
Summary
The Paradox of Magic and Science
Process
Metaphors
Ritual Process
Language
Altered states of consciousness
Metalanguage
Ethnopsychiatry
Cathexis
Social Control and Power
Survival
Conflict
Conformity
Reciprocity
Symbiosis
Logic
Ritual
Developmental Factors
Hungers (Drives or Needs)
Systems
Energy
Entropy
Synergy
Implications for Further Study
Natural Symbols
Natural Character
A New Profession in Western Urban Settings "Ritual Guides or Masters"
Conclusions
Epilogue
Glossary
Bibliography
Index