Dr. Thomas McGlashan (born 1942) is an American professor of

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, well known for his academic contributions to the study of schizophrenia and other mental illnesses.

Professional career

He obtained his medical qualification from the

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in 1967, and was a staff member in

Chestnut Lodge Chestnut Lodge (formerly known as Woodlawn Hotel) was a historic building in Rockville, Maryland, United States, well known as a psychiatric institution. Located at 500 West Montgomery Avenue, it was a contributing property to the West Montgome ...

, where according to the

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, May 23, 2006, McGlashan "strived for years to master

psychoanalysis PsychoanalysisFrom Greek language, Greek: and is a set of theories and techniques of research to discover unconscious mind, unconscious processes and their influence on conscious mind, conscious thought, emotion and behaviour. Based on The Inte ...

, only to reject it (for psychosis) after demonstrating, in a landmark 1984 study, that the treatment did not help much at all in people ... with

schizophrenia Schizophrenia () is a mental disorder characterized variously by hallucinations (typically, Auditory hallucination#Schizophrenia, hearing voices), delusions, thought disorder, disorganized thinking and behavior, and Reduced affect display, f ...

.". These long term follow up and reported outcomes for patients with schizophrenia are known as the Chestnut Lodge studies. In the 1990s he embarked upon work focused on interventions early in the course of schizophrenia, and became an early advocate and researcher in early detection and intervention for psychosis, including being a key participant in the Norway early detection studies (TIPS) and PRIME studies on early treatment of those at risk of schizophrenia The study reported that the drug

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had a "trend significant" effect in preventing conversion to psychosis and that further, larger studies are warranted. Professor Thomas McGlashan is the current recipient of the Richard Wyatt Award, of the

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, and of the Psychiatric Research Award of the

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for his contributions to the field of early detection and intervention in psychosis.

Books

* ''The documentation of clinical psychotropic drug trials'' by Thomas H McGlashan - 1973) * ''The Borderline: Current Empirical Research'' by Thomas H. McGlashan (1985) Co-authored: * ''Early Intervention in Psychotic Disorders'' (Nato Science Series: D Behavioural and Social Sciences, Volume 91) (NATO Science Series D: (closed)) by Tandy Miller,

Sarnoff A. Mednick Sarnoff Andrei Mednick, (January 27, 1928 – April 10, 2015) was a psychologist who pioneered the prospective high-risk, longitudinal study to investigate the etiology (causes) of psychopathology, or mental disorders. His emphasis was on schi ...

, Thomas H. McGlashan, and Jan Libiger (Hardcover - Nov 2001) * ''Schizophrenia: Treatment Process and Outcome'' by Thomas H. McGlashan and Christopher J. Keats (1989) * ''A Developmental Model of Borderline Personality Disorder: Understanding Variations in Course and Outcome'' by Patricia Hoffman Judd and Thomas H. McGlashan (2002)

References

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