Troublesome Disguises

Underdiagnosed Psychiatric Disorders

Dinesh Bhugra, Anne Munro (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

368 Seiten

1997
Blackwell Science Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-86542-674-0 (ISBN)

Infos

This volume covers a variety of psychiatric disorders and topics, including: misidentification syndromes; paranoia or delusional disorder; reactive psychoses; paraphrenia; factitious disorders; disorders of passion; and underdiagnosed psychiatric syndromes - folie a deux.

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Trouble Disguises fills the gap in providing an up-to-date text that looks at the topic of psychiatric disorders in an academic way, with detailed management and discussion. The two editors have assembled a strong team of experts from Europe, America and Australia to produce this comprehensive, clinically focussed volume.

Inhalt

List of Contributors; Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Misidentification Syndromes; 3. Paranoia or Delusional Disorder; 4. Reactive Psychoses; 5. Paraphrenia; 6. Factitious Disorders; 7. Disorders of Passion; 8. Folie a Deux; 9. Pseudodementia; 10. Deliberate Self-Harm; 11. Recurrent Brief Depression: "Nasty, Brutish and Short"; 12. Paraphilias; 13. A Semantic and Clinical Muddle; 14. Atypical Illnesses; 15. Culture-Bound Syndromes; 16. Conclusions; Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.9.1997
• Zusatzinfo: 5
• Verlagsort: Oxford
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 156 x 234 mm
• Gewicht: 852 g
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
• ISBN-10: 0-86542-674-0 / 0865426740
• ISBN-13: 978-0-86542-674-0 / 9780865426740
• Zustand: Neuware