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Informationen zum Autor Peter McKenna is a psychiatrist who has worked as a clinician and an academic and currently works full time in research in Barcelona. His research interests are mainly in schizophrenia and he has published widely on clinical and neuropsychological (and more recently neuroimaging) aspects of the disorder. He is the author of a previous book on schizophrenia (now in its second edition) and co-author of a book on the symptom of formal thought disorder. Klappentext The first comprehensive account of delusions, the forms they take clinically and the mysteries behind what causes them. Zusammenfassung McKenna's Delusions is the first comprehensive account of one of the most arresting phenomena in psychiatry: delusions. This book provides an in-depth and critical review of what delusions are! the forms they can take and how they might be explained from both psychological and biological perspectives. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. What is a delusion?; 2. When is a delusion not a delusion?; 3. Delusional disorder; 4. The pathology of normal belief; 5. The psychology of delusions; 6. The neurochemical connection; 7. Delusion-like phenomena in neurological disease; 8. The salience theory of delusions; 9. What a theory of delusions might look like.
