This comprehensive introduction to schizophrenia is an ideal starting point for students. It covers the theoretical foundations of different perspectives of schizophrenia, including medical, evolutionary and social, to give readers a solid grounding and then discusses the various forms of treatments and the arguments surrounding each perspective.

Kevin Silber is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Derby, UK.

1. What is Schizophrenia?
2. Inheriting Schizophrenia
3. Neurotransmitter Explanations
4. Brain Correlates of chizophrenia
5. Alternative Biological and Evolutionary Explanations
6. Social and Cognitive Explanations
7. Psychodynamic Explanations and Family Functioning
8. Biological Treatments
9. Psychosocial Approaches to Treatment.