1st Edition
Insanity A Study of Major Psychiatric Disorders
416 Pages
by
Routledge
416 Pages
by
Routledge
416 Pages
by
Routledge
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First Published in 1978. The authors’ aim has been to write about the so-called ‘major’ mental illnesses, the conditions we know as ‘the psychoses’. Now, all psychiatric disorders are potentially serious, although in fact the great majority never reach a profound degree of pathology. The psychotic illnesses, by definition, are those which present with many of the most dramatic symptoms seen in... Read more
Diagnosis; the acute organic brain syndrome; the dysmnestic syndrome; the chronic organic brain syndrome; aetiology of organic brain disease; the functional psychoses; schizophrenia and paranoid psychoses - the symptoms and signs; schizophrenia -types, causes and treatments; the affective psychoses; other psychoses; psychological methods of treatment; psychiatry and the community; appendices.
Biography
Robert G. Priest Professor of Psychiatry (University of London) St. Mary's Hospital Medical School, St. Mary's Hospital
