Autore: Frauke Schultze-Lutter, Jean Addington, Stephan Ruhrmann, Jaochim Klosterkoetter

Casa editrice: Giovanni Fioriti Editore

Anno di pubblicazione: 2007

ISBN: 978-88-87319-88-0

The Schizophrenia Proneness Instrument, Adult version (SPI-A), assesses a wide range of subtle, self-experienced disturbances first described as basic symptoms. Primarily designed to support the prediction of first-episode psychosis, it also facilitates a broad range of clinical and research issues across the different states of the illness. The SPI-A provides important insight into subclinical complaints and deficits that often precede frank psychotic episodes and maintain during remission. Hence, it mainly targets psychiatrists and psychologists with a clinical and scientific interest in psychoses but it may be relevant for other professionals, students, patients and families involved in the care of those with psychosis. Patients themselves might be supported by the SPI-A in expressing their subjective experiences that often appear to be hard to describe spontaneously.