Introduction to the Special Section on Clinical High Risk for Mental Illness: Transdiagnostic Framework, Detection Strategies, Assessment, Treatment and Outcome

Tommaso Boldrini; Marco Solmi

doi:10.4081/ripppo.2020.462

https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2020.462

Tommaso Boldrini | tommaso.boldrini@unipd.it Department of Developmental and Socialization Psychology, University of Padua, Padua, Italy.
Marco Solmi Neurosciences Department, University of Padua; Neuroscience Center, University Hospital of Padua, Psychiatry Unit, Padua, Italy; Early Psychosis: Interventions and Clinical Detection Lab, Department of Psychosis Studies, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, United Kingdom.

Abstract

Historically, the idea of preventing severe mental disorders by intervening in their prodromal stages was first introduced by the psychoanalyst Harry Stack Sullivan. Sullivan (1994) claimed that schizophrenia was the result of maladaptive relationships and experiences, rather than hereditary or biological factors and, as such, could be prevented. (...)

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