Disorders of Thinking in Schizophrenia: Phenomenology, Theories, Research

The book analyzes the main directions and the most significant results of research on thinking disorders in world science, as well as the theoretical concepts that compete with each other in explaining the nature and mechanisms of pathological thinking in schizophrenia. The author presents the results of a unique study of thinking disorders, which have been examined in their simultaneous connection with the pathology of cognitive, regulatory, emotional, and personality disorders as potential factors influencing thinking disturbances. At the same time, the thinking pathology associated with schizophrenia spectrum disorders is experimentally compared with thinking disturbances in exogenous organic brain diseases.

The book is complemented by the most comprehensive collection of symptoms of pathological thinking in schizophrenia that currently exists in domestic science, making it a useful reference. It includes more than 300 patho-phenomena of thinking, which are combined in an extensive glossary and systematized from the perspective of L.M. Vekker's theory of informational mental processes.

The book may be useful for a wide range of specialists in the fields of medical, pathological and neuropsychology, psychiatry, neurolinguistics, defectology, pedagogy, and other related disciplines, as well as for students in the mentioned fields.