5th Edition

Uncommon Psychiatric Syndromes

304 Pages
by Routledge

304 Pages
by Routledge

304 Pages
by Routledge

This book explores the historical background to, and present-day understanding of, a number of unusual psychiatric disorders. This fully revised new edition contains a new chapter on a range of recently emerging conditions as well as updated literature and a collection of new and updated cases. Since the publication of the fourth edition, there have been many developments in the field of... Read more

Preface to the Fifth Edition  Preface to the First Edition  1.  Capgras’s syndrome  2. De Clérambault’s syndrome  3. Othello's syndrome  4. Ganser’s syndrome  5. Couvade's syndrome  6. Munchausen’s syndrome and related factitious disorders  7. Gilles de la Tourette’s syndrome  8. Cotard’s syndrome (Le Délire de Négation)  9. Folie à deux (et folie à plusiers)  10. Ekbom’s syndrome  (delusional infestation) and body dysmorphic disorder  11. Possession states and allied syndromes  12. Other uncommon psychiatric syndromes  Index

Biography

Dr David Enoch, formerly senior consultant psychiatrist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, was an internationally acknowledged authority and pioneer of uncommon psychiatric syndromes, the title of his best-selling book. A broadcaster and author, his other titles include Healing the Hurt Mind (seventh edition), Schizophrenia: Voices in the Dark, Psychiatric Disorders in Dental Practice and I Want A Christian Psychiatrist.

Prof. Basant K. Puri currently works in academic research and practises clinically.

Dr Hadrian Ball is a consultant forensic psychiatrist having worked in Norwich, UK, and Hobart, Tasmania. He is considered an international authority on sexual offending against older victims. He has retired from clinical practice.