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Drawing on the work of Til Wykes, Lorna Gray and colleagues explain how patients with schizophrenia were encouraged to learn a range of skills, through practise and rehearsal, designed to improve their cognitive functioning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reviews ideas about depression and mourning from various quarters, particularly from psychoanalytic writings, from the work of George Brown on the social origins of depression and from some of the work in behavioural psychotherapy on guided mourning. Its essence is foreshadowed in a statement of Winnicott's: "If in an individual the depressive position has been achieved and fully established, then the reaction to loss is grief, or sadness. Where there is some degree of failure at the depressive position the result of loss is depression". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]