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EXPERT REVIEW OF NEUROTHERAPEUTICS
Volume 13, Issue 7, Pages 784-793Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1586/14737175.2013.811150
Keywords
depression; insight; metacognition; neurocognition; psychosis; psychosocial function; recovery; schizophrenia; social cognition; stigma
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- NIMH
- Department of Veterans Affairs Research and Development Service
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Poor insight or unawareness of illness has been commonly observed in schizophrenia and has been long recognized as a potent barrier to treatment adherence and a risk factor for a range of poorer outcomes. Paradoxically, the achievement of insight often poses a different set of problems including depression and low self-esteem. One barrier to the treatment of poor insight has been a lack of understanding of the phenomenon, which causes poor insight to develop and persist over time. Without knowing what promotes poor insight, treatment to date has had little to offer beyond the supportive provision of information. To explore these issues, this article reviews emerging literature on the correlates of poor insight in schizophrenia, and newly developing ways of conceptualizing insight. It then details a number of innovative integrative group and individual treatment approaches in the early stages of development, which take into account some of the potential causal forces behind poor insight, including deficits in neurocognition, social cognition, metacognition and heightened self-stigma. A plan for further research is presented to develop a model of the factors whose interaction influences insight, and to refine and test integrative treatments.
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