Henry R. Cowan

Henry R. Cowan studies how people's sense of self and personal life story ('narrative identity') relates to mental health, with particular attention to schizophrenia and psychosis risk. His work combines psychological measurement (developing and validating scales), longitudinal studies of youth at clinical high risk for psychosis, and cross-cultural comparisons of how people narrate difficult life events. Much of this research also examines symptom classification frameworks and premorbid (before illness onset) social and academic functioning as predictors of later psychiatric outcomes.

Publication output has grown substantially over the last decade, rising from zero in 2017 to a peak of 17 in 2024, with a generally increasing trajectory despite some year-to-year fluctuation.

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