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