German E. Berrios, G. E. Berrios

The History of Mental Symptoms

Descriptive Psychopathology Since the Nineteenth Century

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An important and unique survey of the historical background to the descriptive categories of psychopathology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 584
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Januar 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 994g
• ISBN-13: 9780521437363
• ISBN-10: 0521437369
• Artikelnr.: 21973062

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I. The Object of Inquiry: 1. Matters historical
2. Descriptive psychopathology
Part II. Cognition and Consciousness: 3. Disorders of perception
4. Thought disorder
5. Delusions
6. Obsessions and compulsions
7. Cognitive impairment: congenital
8. Cognitive impairment: acquired
9. Memory and its disorders
10. Consciousness and its disorders
Part III. Mood and Emotions: 11. Anxiety and cognate disorders
12. Affect and its disorders
13. The anhedonias
Part IV. Volition and Action: 14. The will and its disorders
15. Feelings of fatigue
16. Catalepsy, catatonia and stupor
17. Tremor, rigidity, akathisia and stereotypy
Part V. Miscellany: 18. Personality and its disorders
19. Self-harm.