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This book provides a comprehensive overview of positive and negative symptoms in schizophrenia, approaching this aspect of the illness from a number of different directions, such as techniques for clinical description, interviews and rating scales, longitudinal course, prognostic significance, response to treatment and cognitive and neurobiological correlates.

Dichotomies and Other Distinctions in Schizophrenia.- Positive and Negative Signals: A Conceptual History.- Positive and Negative Symptoms: Assessment and Validity.- Assessment of Negative Symptoms: Instruments and Evaluation Criteria.- Methodological Problems in Identifying and Measuring First-Rank Symptoms of Schizophrenia.- Anhedonia and the Amotivational State of Schizophrenia.- Constituting Reality - Its Decline and Repair in the Long-Term Course of Schizophrenic Psychoses: The Intentionality Model.- Negative Symptoms in Schizophrenia: Relationships to Positive Symptoms and Outcome.- Negative Symptoms: A Critique of Current Approaches.- Are There Two Types of Schizophrenia? True Onset and Sequence of Positive and Negative Syndromes Prior to First Admission.- Dependence, Independence or Interdependence of Positive and Negative Symptoms.- Long-Term Monomorphism of Negative and Positive Schizophrenic Episodes.- Premorbid and Sociodemographic Features of Schizophrenia with Positive and Negative Initial Episodes.- Long-Term Outcome of Patients with a Positive Initial Episode Versus Patients with a Negative Initial Episode.- The Concept of Positive and Negative Schizophrenia in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.- Negative Symptoms in the Long-Term Course of Childhood Schizophrenia: A Discussion Contribution.- The Negative/Positive Dichotomy: Does It Make Sense from the Perspective of the Genetic Researcher?.- Genetic Transmission of Negative and Positive Symptoms in the Biological Relatives of Schizophrenics.- Neuropathological and Brain Imaging Studies in Positive and Negative Schizophrenia.- Explorations of Dopamine and Noradrenaline Activity and Negative Symptoms in Schizophrenia: Concepts and Controversies.- Typical Neuropleptics in the Treatment of Positive and Negative Symptoms.- The Effect of Clozapine and Other Atypical Antipsychotic Drugs on Negative Symptoms.- The Treatment of Positive and Negative Schizophrenic Symptoms with Dopamine Agonists.- Nonpharmacological Treatment Concepts of Negative Symptomatology.- The Demise of the Kraepelinian Binary Concept and the Aetiological Unity of the Psychoses.- Positive and Negative Symptomatology: The State of Affairs.