The Experience of Psychopathology: Investigating Mental Disorders in their Natural Settings

Cover......Page 1
Frontmatter......Page 2
Contents......Page 10
Foreword......Page 14
Preface......Page 16
PART I - INTRODUCTION: THE EXPERIENCE OF PSYCHOPATHOLOGY......Page 20
1 - The experience of psychopathology in natural settings: introduction and illustration of variables......Page 22
2 - Microbehavioral approaches to monitoring human experience......Page 46
3 - Experience Sampling and personality psychology: concepts and applications......Page 53
PART II - THE EXPERIENCE SAMPLING METHOD: PROCEDURES AND ANALYSES......Page 60
4 - Validity and reliability of the Experience Sampling Method......Page 62
5 - Analyzing Experience Sampling data: a guide book for the perplexed......Page 77
6 - States, syndromes, and polythetic classes: developing a classification system for ESM data using the ascending and cross-classification method......Page 98
PART III - EXPERIENCE SAMPLING STUDIES WITH CLINICAL SAMPLES......Page 114
7 - Variability of schizophrenia symptoms......Page 116
8 - The daily life of ambulatory chronic mental patients......Page 129
9 - `Goofed-up' images: thought sampling with a schizophrenic woman......Page 142
10 - The social ecology of anxiety: theoretical and quantitative perspectives......Page 148
11 - Consequences of depression for the experience of anxiety in daily life......Page 160
12 - Dysphoric moods in depressed and non-depressed adolescents......Page 167
13 - Capturing alternate personalities: the use of Experience Sampling in multiple personality disorder......Page 176
14 - Bulimia in daily life: a context-bound syndrome......Page 186
15 - Alcohol and marijuana use in adolescents' daily lives......Page 199
16 - Drug craving and drug use in the daily life of heroin addicts......Page 212
17 - Stress, coping and cortisol dynamics in daily life......Page 238
18 - Vital exhaustion or depression: a study of daily mood in exhausted male subjects at risk for myocardial infarction......Page 252
19 - Blood pressure and behavior: mood, activity and blood pressure in daily life......Page 259
PART IV - THERAPEUTIC APPLICATIONS OF THE EXPERIENCE SAMPLING METHOD......Page 272
20 - The uses of the ESM in psychotherapy......Page 274
21 - Expanding the experiential parameters of cognitive therapy......Page 279
22 - The monitoring of optimal experience: a tool for psychiatric rehabilitation......Page 289
23 - The ESM and the measurement of clinical change: a case of anxiety disorder......Page 299
24 - The applicability of ESM in personalized rehabilitation......Page 309
25 - Everyday self-awareness: implications for self-esteem, depression and resistance to therapy......Page 323
PART V - PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH APPLICATIONS: PRACTICAL ISSUES and ATTENTION POINTS......Page 334
26 - Practical issues in psychiatric applications of ESM......Page 336
27 - Selecting measures, diagnostic validity and scaling in the study of depression......Page 343
28 - Research alliance and the limit of compliance: Experience Sampling with the depressed elderly......Page 358
29 - The importance of assessing base rates for clinical studies: an example of stimulus control of smoking......Page 366
30 - Infrequently occurring activities and contexts in time-use data......Page 372
31 - Technical note: devices and time-sampling procedures......Page 382
CLOSING Looking to the future......Page 394
References......Page 400
List of contributors......Page 437
Index......Page 442