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Informationen zum Autor Peter McKenna is a psychiatrist with a special interest in schizophrenia. He has written one previous book on the subject and has carried out research, principally on the neuropsychology of the disorder. Tomasina Oh strayed into the area of schizophrenic thought disorder during her PhD. A linguist by training, she is interested in language impairment, as well as the relationship between language and cognition. Klappentext This book reviews our knowledge of the incoherent speech which can present as a symptom of schizophrenia. Zusammenfassung This book reviews our knowledge of the incoherent speech which can present as a symptom of schizophrenia. It covers clinical presentation! differential diagnosis and the theories proposed to account for the symptom in these 'thought disordered' patients! ranging from the psychoanalytic to there being a form of aphasia involved. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Describing schizophrenic speech; 2. Thought disorder as a syndrome in schizophrenia; 3. The differential diagnosis of thought disorder; 4. Thought disorder as a form of dysphasia; 5. Thought disorder and communicative competence; 6. Thought disorder as a dysexecutive phenomenon; 7. The dyssemantic hypothesis of thought disorder; 8. Some conclusions and a few speculations.
