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This work is an expanded version of the Salmon lectures Dr. Lidz gave in 1967. The book summarizes the development of his and his co-workers' thoughts as clinical and research data accumulated over a period of about 30 years. His most recent formulations concerning the bridge from family pathology to specific schizophrenic thought disorder are also outlined. The relatively succinct section on therapy summarizes attitudes and recommendations based on Lidz's view of the etiology of schizophrenia.
The book is not an attempt to review all major current etiological theories of schizophrenia, nor is it even a detailed attempt to differentiate, integrate, and fully place his own formulation in the broad context of other views. These are lectures of a teacher who forcefully presents the core of his findings and conclusions, the difficulties encountered in refining them, and their therapeutic usefulness. Data from other fields, linguistics, for instance, and especially developmental psychology (Piaget), which can best be conceptually related to his formulations, receive—in the context of a summary of his own work—adequate attention, whereas some aspects of psychoanalytic literature—the more recent work on separation-individuation, for example, a topic so relevant to Lidz's formulations1—do not receive the attention they deserve. Lidz also makes