Insanity
A Study of Major Psychiatric Disorders
1st Edition
Published on 23. April 2014
416 pages
978-1-136-89462-6 (ISBN)
Description
First Published in 1978. The authors' aim has been to write about the so-called 'major' mental illnesses, the conditions we know as 'the psychoses'. Now, all psychiatric disorders are potentially serious, although in fact the great majority never reach a profound degree of pathology. The psychotic illnesses, by definition, are those which present with many of the most dramatic symptoms seen in psychiatry. Included in their manifestations may be seriously disturbed behaviour, loss of contact with reality, severe delusions and hallucinations, loss of memory and of other intellectual functions, and many others. In other words, they are the illnesses which to most people represent the concepts of 'Madness' or 'Insanity'. Despite the undoubted advances in our thinking about these disorders, we still tend to cross our fingers and hope that they will not happen to us. The fear- and the stigma- of mental illness is not yet dead.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
File size
19,13 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-136-89462-6 (9781136894626)
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09/2016
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01/1978
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Frank Cass Publishers
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Persons
Robert G. Priest Professor of Psychiatry (University of London) St. Mary's Hospital Medical School, St. Mary's Hospital
Content
Diagnosis; the acute organic brain syndrome; the dysmnestic syndrome; the chronic organic brain syndrome; aetiology of organic brain disease; the functional psychoses; schizophrenia and paranoid psychoses - the symptoms and signs; schizophrenia -types, causes and treatments; the affective psychoses; other psychoses; psychological methods of treatment; psychiatry and the community; appendices.
