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This book is dedicated to the memory of Michael J. Goldstein, one of the pioneers in psychosocial intervention in psychiatry. The structure of this book follows Goldstein footsteps in this domain and is subdivided into family factors as well as intervention strategies for severe mental illness. Recent research on high expressed emotion (HEE) in schizophrenia (e.g., early psychosis) and borderline disorder, patients’ perspectives of HEE as well as other variables predictive for relapse in recent-onset schizophrenia are covered in this book. Family treatment strategies in schizophrenia, depression, bipolar disorder, substance use disorders and illness management programs as well as pharmacological treatment strategies are illustrate and current studies presented. Introduction (A. Schaub); Michael J. Goldstein’s Impact on the Field of Psychosis (K. Hahlweg).- Expressed Emotion and Associated Research in Schizophrenia and in Borderline Personality: Early Psychosis, Schizophrenia and the Family (D. H. Linszen, P. M. Dingemans); Examining Patients’ Perceptions of their Relatives’ Expressed Emotion (M. C. Tompson, A. G. Weisman); Patient Psychopathology and Parental Expressed Emotion in Schizophrenia Revisited (P. M. Dingemans, D. H. Linszen, M. E. Lenior); Psychophysiological Evaluation of Verbal Interaction during Conversations between Psychotic Patients and their Relatives (A. Altorfer, M.-L. Ksermann); Predictors of Relapse in Recent-Onset Schizophrenia (K. L. Subotnik, K. H. Nuechterlein, J. Ventura); Borderline Personality Disorder and the Family (J. M. Hooley, G. M. Dominak).- Intervention Strategies in Schizophrenia, Depression and Bipolar Disorder: Principles and Results of Family Therapy in Schizophrenia (K. Hahlweg, G. Wiedemann); A Controlled Trial of Couple Therapy versus Antidepressant Medication for Depressed Patients with a Critical Partner (J. Leff); Family-Focused Treatment of Bipolar Disorder: A Comparison of One-Year Effects Using Repeated Measures Analysis of Variance and Random Regression (J. A. Richards, D. J. Miklowitz); Family Interventions for Severe Mental Illness and Substance Use Disorder (K. T. Mueser, L. Fox, C. Mercer); Illness Self-management Programs in Schizophrenia and Severe Affective Disorders (A. Schaub); Drug Treatment of Schizophrenia: State of the Art and the Potential of the Atypical Neuroleptics (H.-J. Mller)
