Complete and practical overview of clinical psychopathology
New chapter on the emerging area of abnormalities of aesthetic sense
Expanded information on musical hallucinations, erotomania, abnormalities of the form of thinking, and the intriguing nature of gesture and its disturbance
Online videos and podcasts covering interviewing techniques and tips
Multiple choice questions and extended answers, offering different ways to learn
Fully updated with new knowledge, concepts and theoretical and explanatory models
Preface to the Seventh Edition Additional Materials Within Accompanying Electronic Version
Section I CONCEPTS AND METHOD 1. Fundamental Concepts of Descriptive Psychopathology 2. Eliciting the Symptoms of Mental Illness
Section II CONSCIOUSNESS AND COGNITION 3. Consciousness and Disturbed Consciousness 4. Attention, Concentration, Orientation and Sleep 5. Disturbance of Memory
Section III AWARENESS OF REALITY: TIME, PERCEPTION AND JUDGEMENT 6. Disorder of Time 7. Pathology of Perception 8. Delusions and Other Erroneous Ideas 9. Disorder of the Thinking Process 10. Disorder of Speech and Language 11. Insight,
Section IV SELF AND BODY 12. The Disordered Self 13. Depersonalization 14. Disorder of the Awareness of the Body 15. The Psychopathology of Pain
Section V EMOTIONS AND ACTION 16. Affect and Emotional Disorders 17. Anxiety, Panic, Irritability, Phobia and Obsession 18. Disorders of Volition and Execution 19. Disorder of Aesthetic Perception and Praxis
Section VI VARIATIONS OF HUMAN NATURE 20. The Expression of Disordered Personality
Section VII DIAGNOSIS 21 Psychopathology and Diagnosis Self-Assessment 1 Self-Assessment 2 Self-Assessment 1: Answers Self-Assessment 2: Answers
Femi Oyebode, MBBS, MD, PhD, FRCPsych, Professor of Psychiatry and Consultant Psychiatrist, University of Birmingham, National Centre for Mental Health, Birmingham, UK
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