Author: Francois-Regis CousinPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470986727
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Anthology of French Language Psychiatric Texts
Author: Francois-Regis CousinPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470986727
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Freud's Schreber Between Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis
Author: Thomas DalzellPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 042989984X
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
This book investigates what was distinctive about the predisposition to psychosis Freud posited in Daniel Paul Schreber, a presiding judge in Saxony's highest court. It argues that Freud's 1911 Schreber text reversed the order of priority in late nineteenth-century conceptions of the disposing causes of psychosis - the objective-biological and subjective-biographical - to privilege subjective disposition to psychosis, but without returning to the paradigms of early nineteenth-century Romantic psychiatry and without obviating the legitimate claims of biological psychiatry in relation to hereditary disposition. While Schreber is the book's reference point, this is not a general treatment of Schreber, or of Freud's reading of the Schreber case. It focuses rather on what was new in Freud's thinking on the disposition to psychosis, what he learned from his psychiatrist contemporaries and what he did not, and whether or not psychoanalysts have fully received his aetiology.
Mental Pathology in Its Relation to Normal Psychology
Author: Gustav Wilhelm StörringPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Brain
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
National Library of Medicine Catalog
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 892
Book Description
Schizophrenia
Author: Daniel R. WeinbergerPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1444347748
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 1139
Book Description
Schizophrenia is one of the most complex and disabling diseases to affect mankind. Relatively little is known about its nature and its origins, and available treatments are inadequate for most patients. As a result, there are inevitable controversies about what causes it, how to diagnose it, and how best to treat it. However, in the past decade, there has been an explosion of new research, with dramatic discoveries involving genetic etiology and epidemiological risk factors. There has also been a catalog of new drugs coming to market, and controversy about the relative advantages and disadvantages of newer compared with older therapies. In addition, developing technologies in genomics, molecular biology and neuroimaging provide streams of new information. This book represents a definitive, essential, and up-to-date reference text on schizophrenia. It extensively and critically digests and clarifies recent advances and places them within a clinical context. The Editors (one American and one British), highly respected clinical psychiatrists and researchers and acknowledged experts on schizophrenia, have again assembled an outstanding group of contributors from the USA, UK, Europe and Australia, It will be of value to practising psychiatrists and to trainees, as well as to clinical and neuroscience researchers interested in keeping up with this field or coming into it. The book consists of four sections: descriptive aspects, biological aspects, physical treatments, and psychological and social aspects. It reviews the theoretical controversies over symptomatology, classification and aetiology (particularly pertinent as DSM-V is being developed), the relationship of schizophrenia to the other psychoses, the significance of positive and negative symptoms and pre-morbid personality. It describes a variety of approaches to integrating the vast research data about schizophrenia, including neurodevelopmental, genetic, pharmacological, brain imaging and psychological findings. The biological treatment section reviews the comparative efficacy of various drugs, the management of drug-resistant patients and both neurological and metabolic complications. The final section looks at psychological therapies, social outcomes, and the economics of schizophrenia. Highly Commended in the Psychiatry section of the 2012 BMA Book Awards.
Mental pathology in its relation to normal psychology
Author: Gustav StörringThe Journal of Mental Pathology
Author: Journal of Mental Pathology
Author: The Encyclopedia of Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders
Author: Richard NollPublisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 0816075085
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
Deals with the subject of Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders. With more than 600 entries, this work features a foreword and an introduction, and references and appendixes. Its coverage includes the history, treatment, diagnosis, and medical research and theories regarding this class of mental illness.
The Superstitious Mind
Author: Judith DevlinPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300037104
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
This intriguing book examines popular religion, traditional medicine, witchcraft, apparitions, demonology, and magic in nineteenth-century rural France. Devlin demonstrates that many of the impulses and mental processes now considered superstitious constituted a wholly reasonable response to the pressures of a harsh and impoverished life. Far from the product of a primitive mentality, many of these beliefs have survived in modern culture and can even illuminate the nature of modern mass politics.