Handbook of Psychiatry: Volume 1, General Psychopathology

This volume was the first of five, which together give a comprehensive account of clinical psychiatry and its scientific foundations.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of contributors; Foreword; Introduction: the sciences and general psychopathology Michael Shepherd; Part I. The Historical Background: Section 1. Psychiatry in its Historical Context W. F. Bynum; Section 2. The Evolution of Some Basic Clinical Concepts: 1. Psychosis Christian Scharfetter; 2. Neurosis Esther Fischer-Homberger; 3. Mania and depression Jean Starobinski; 4. Schizophrenia Christian Scharfetter; 5. Paranoia Christian Scharfetter; 6. Hypochondriasis Esther Fischer-Homberger; 7. Sexology J. Hoenig; 8. Epilepsy Owsei Temkin; 9. 'Psychsomatic' W. F. Bynum; Part II. The Clinical Phenomena of Mental Disorders: Section 3. Descriptive and Developmental Phenomena F. Kräupl Taylor; Section 4. The Neuropsychology of Mental Disorders: 10. Introduction O. L. Zangwill; 11. Disorders of memory O. L. Zangwill; 12. Intellectual function and its disorders Edgar Miller; 13. The neuropsychology of emotion T. W. Robbins; 14. Disorders of language Maria A. Wyke; Section 5. Socio-Cultural Variations in Symptomatology, Incidence and Course of Illness H. B. M. Murphy; Section 6. Medico-Legal Aspects T. C. N. Gibbens; Part III. Taxonomy, Diagnosis and Treatment: Section 7. The Principles of Classification in Relation to Mental Disease R. E. Kendell; Section 8. Diagnosis and the Diagnostic Process J. E. Cooper; Section 9. The Clinical Assessment of Mental Disorders Felix Post; Section 10. The Principles of Treatment and Therapeutic Evaluation R. H. Cawley; References; Cross-references to other volumes in the series; Indexes.

Zusammenfassung

This 1986 volume was the first of five, which together give a comprehensive account of clinical psychiatry and its scientific foundations. After an introductory section about the historical background and the evolution of some basic concepts, clinical phenomena are described and discussed.

Produktdetails

• Mitarbeit: M. Shepherd (Herausgeber), Michael Shepherd (Herausgeber), Shepherd M. (Herausgeber), O. L. Zangwill (Herausgeber), Oliver L. Zangwill (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Cambridge Academic
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 28.01.1983
• EAN: 9780521281379
• ISBN: 978-0-521-28137-9
• Abmessung: 191 mm x 235 mm x 17 mm
• Gewicht: 560 g
• Illustration: Worked examples or Exercises
• Serien: Studies in Emotion and Social; Studies in Emotion and Social
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Psychologie > Theoretische Psychologie; Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Medizin > Klinische Fächer; Sachbuch > Psychologie, Esoterik, Spiritualität, Anthroposophie > Psychologie: Allgemeines, Nachschlagewerke; MEDICAL / Psychiatry / General, Psychiatry