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.
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.
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.
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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.
