Book Description
An international team of leading researchers and clinicians provides the first comprehensive, epidemiological overview of this multi-faceted and still-perplexing disorder. Controversial issues such as the validity of discrete or dimensional classifications of schizophrenia and the continuum between psychosis and 'normality' are explored in depth. Separate chapters are devoted to topics of particular relevance to schizophrenia such as suicide, violence and substance abuse. Finally, new prospects for treatment and prevention are considered.

Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK. Text provides an overview of the current state of epidemiological knowledge and research in schizophrenia. Emphasizes the findings that may elude the cause of the disorder. Focuses on social, genetic, and developmental epidemiology highlighting issues relevant to the epidemiological study of schizophrenia.