Sims' Symptoms in the Mind: Textbook of Descriptive Psychopathology, 7th Edition

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