About the Authors ix Acknowledgements x Introduction xi Section One: What Is This Schizophrenia? Chapter 1 Schizophrenia: What is it? 3 Chapter 2 Biological Disease or Psychological Problem? Who is Right? 13 Chapter 3 Why Young Men? What the Hell is Going On in Late Adolescence? 33 Chapter 4 Why Might Some People be Blocked? 51 Section Summary 60 Section Two: Psychosis and the Self Chapter 5 The Crisis of the Adolescent Self 63 Chapter 6 The Mystery of the Self: Why have it? What is it? 65 Chapter 7 The Potential and the Limit 73 Chapter 8 How is the Self Constructed?. 77 Chapter 9 The Insecure Self (Le Neant) 79 Chapter 10 Alienated/Engulfed Self (Objectité) 83 Section Summary 90 Section Three: Personal Accounts Chapter 11 How We Asked People to Give Their Personal Accounts 93 Chapter 12 Results I: Anger and Catastrophes 104 Chapter 13 Further Results: Linking Conflict Interactions to Symptoms. 111 Chapter 14 Peer and Romantic Conflicts 133 Section Summary 144 Section Four: What Can Be Done? Therapeutic Ideas Chapter 15 ''Character-based'' Training. 151 Chapter 16 Overcoming Interpersonal Blocks to Self-construction 168 Chapter 17 Overcoming Symptoms 186 Section Summary 201 Concluding Remarks 202 Appendix The Self and Other Scale 203 References 205 Author Index 217 Subject Index 221.