The Experience of Psychopathology. Investigating Mental Disorders in Their Natural Settings

Description

This book is devoted to understanding the experience of distress, well-being and psychopathology in daily life, with the Experience Sampling Method (ESM) in psychiatry, and contains contributions from the leading international pioneers of this approach. Experience sampling is a methodology for collecting reliable and valid data on patterns of behaviour, thought and feeling from real-life situations. It thus yields data complementary to those provided by neurobiological approaches to mental illnesses and is applicable to the study and management of a wide variety of mental disorders in their natural settings. The editor, who did much to bring ESM to prominence in psychiatry, has assembled a fascinating range of contributions, many of them previously unpublished, dealing with the diagnostic and therapeutic possibilities of this approach.

• Emphasizes the recent method of diagnosing/treating psychiatric disorders in the context of a patient's lifestyle
• Illustrated with case histories from schizophrenia, depression, eating disorders and addiction

Contents

Foreword M. Csikszentmihalyi
Preface M. W. deVries

Part I. Introduction: The Experience of Psychopathology:
1. The experience of psychopathology in natural settings: introduction and illustration of variables M. W. deVries
2. Microbehavioural approaches to monitoring human experience J. P. Robinson
3. Experience sampling and personality psychology: concepts and applications S. E. Hormuth

Part II. The Experience Sampling Method: Procedures and Analyses:
4. Validity and reliability of the experience sampling method M. Csikszentmihalyi and R. Larson
5. Analyzing experience sampling data: a guide book for the perplexed R. Larson and P. A. E. G. Delespaul
6. States, syndromes, and polythetic classes: developing a classification system for ESM data using the ascending and cross-classification method K. M. Van Meter, M. W. deVries, C. D. Kaplan and C. I. M. Dijkman-Caes

Part III. Experience Sampling Studies with Clinical Samples:
7. Variability of schizophrenia symptoms M. W. deVries and P. A. E. G. Delespaul
8. The daily life of ambulatory chronic mental patients P. A. E. G. Delespaul and M. W. deVries
9. 'Goofed-up' images: thought sampling with a schizophenic woman R. T. Hurlburt and S. M. Melancon
10. The social ecology of anxiety: theoretical and quantitative perspectives C. I. M. Dijkman-Caes and M. W. deVries
11. Consequences of depression for the experience of anxiety in daily life M. W. deVries, P. A. E. G. Delespaul and C. I. M. Dijkman-Caes
12. Dysphoric moods in depressed and non-depressed adolescents W. A. Merrick
13. Capturing alternate personalities: the use of experience sampling in multiple personality disorder R. J. Loewenstein, J. Hamilton, S. Alagna, N. Reid and M. W. deVries
14. Bulimia in daily life: a context-bound syndrome R. Larson and L. Asmussen
15. Alcohol and marijuana use in adolescents'daily lives R. Larson, M. Csikszentmihalyi and M. Freeman
16. Drug craving and drug use in the daily life of heroin addicts C. D. Kaplan
17. Stress, coping and cortisol dynamics in daily life N. A. Nicolson
18. Vital exhaustion or depression: a study of daily mood in exhausted male subjects at risk for myocardial infarction R. Van Diest
19. Blood pressure and behaviour: mood, activity and blood pressure in daily life L. F. Van Egeren and S. Madarasmi

Part IV. Therapeutic Applications of the Experience Sampling Method:
20. The uses of the ESM in psychotherapy M. W. deVries
21. Expanding the experimental parameters of cognitive therapy E. Donner
22. The monitoring of optimal experience: a tool for psychiatric rehabilitation F. Massimini, M. Csikszenmihalyi and M. Carli
23. The ESM and the measurement of clinical change: a case of anxiety disorder A. Delle Fave and F. Massimini
24. The applicability of ESM in personalized rehabilitation E. G. T. Van der Poel and P. A. E. G. Delespaul
25. Everyday self-awareness: implications for self-esteem, depression and resistance to therapy T. J. Figurski
Part V. Psychiatric Research Applications: Practical Issues and Attention Points:
26. Practical issues in psychiatric applications of ESM M. W. deVries
27. Selecting measures, diagnostic validity and scaling in the study of depression H. Kraan, H. Meertens, M. Hilwig, L. Volovics, C. I. M. Dijkman-Caes and P. Portegijs
28. Research alliance and the limit of compliance: experience sampling with the depressed elderly K. C. M. Wilson, R. Hopkins, M. W. deVries and J. R. M. Copeland
29. The importance of assessing base rates for clinical studies: an example of stimulus control of smoking J. Paty, J. Kassel and S. Shiffman
30. Infrequently occuring activities and contexts in time-use data P. J. Stone and N. A. Nicolson
31. Technical note: devices and time-sampling procedures P. A. E. G. Delespaul

References
List of contributors
Index.

About the Authors

Marten W. de Vries, Rijksuniversiteit Limburg, The Netherlands