Femi Oyebode (University of Birmingham)

Psychopathology of Rare and Unusual Syndromes

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This text is an authoritative account of the rarest and most unusual psychiatric syndromes. Bridging medicine and the humanities, it includes the history and descriptions of such conditions, clinical case histories, and discussions of the causes and underlying explanatory mechanisms. It is a valuable resource for psychiatrists and researchers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 426g
• ISBN-13: 9781108716772
• ISBN-10: 1108716776
• Artikelnr.: 61258318

Autorenporträt

Femi Oyebode is a Consultant Psychiatrist at the National Centre for Mental Health Birmingham and Professor of Psychiatry, University of Birmingham, UK. He was awarded the Royal College of Psychiatrists' Lifetime Achievement Award in 2016 and the Honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 2019, the highest and most prestigious award of the College. An experienced author and published poet, he has published books that include Madness at the Theatre (Cambridge University Press, 2012) and Mindreadings: Literature and Psychiatry (RCPsych Publications, 2009), as well as six volumes of poetry.

Inhaltsangabe

Section 1. Abnormalities of Belief and Judgment: 1. Delusional misidentification syndromes
2. Othello syndrome
3. Folie à deux
4. Couvade syndrome
Section 2. Abnormalities of Experience of Love: 5. Erotomania (De Clérambault syndrome)
Section 3. Abnormalities of Perception: 6. Charles Bonnet syndrome
7. Musical hallucinosis
8. Ekbom syndrome
9. Vulvodynia and penoscrotodynia
10. Olfactory reference syndrome
11. Multimodal perceptual syndrome (Synaethesia)
Section 4. Abnormalities of the Self: 12. Depersonalization
13. Autoscopy and related syndromes
14. Dissociation: possession states and dissociative identity disorder
Section 5. Abnormalities of Experience of the Body: 15. Body integrity identity disorder
16. Cotard syndrome
Section 6. Abnormalities of Memory Function: 17. Confabulation
18. Ganser state
Section 7. Abnormalities of Behaviour: 19. Diogenes syndrome.