Conceptual issues in psychological medicine : collected papers of Michael Shepherd

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    • Shepherd, Michael

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Conceptual issues in psychological medicine : collected papers of Michael Shepherd

Tavistock/Routledge, 1990

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This collection of essays, by one of the most eminent figures in psychiatry, takes a broad perspective to tackle some of the conceptual issues raised by psychological medicine. This book should be of interest to professionals of psychological medicine and psychiatry.

Table of Contents

  • Sherlock Holmes and the case of Dr Freud
  • formulation of new research strategies on schizophrenia
  • morbid jealousy: some clinical and social aspects of a psychiatric symptom
  • Chaning disciplines in psychiatry
  • psychological medicine redivivus
  • concept and communication
  • the sciences and general psychopathology
  • the legacies of Sir Aubrey Lewis
  • the origins and directions of social psychiatry
  • the case of Arise Evans - a historico-psychiatric study
  • psychotropic drugs and taxonomic systems
  • Karl Jaspers - general psychopathology
  • John Ryle - urban factors in mental disorders
  • an epidemiological approach
  • the only metaphysical man - a re-examination of Otto Rank
  • primary care as the middle ground for psychiatric epidemiology
  • psychiatric epidemiology and epidemiological psychiatry.

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Details

  • NCID
    BA13060916
  • ISBN
    • 0415037271
  • LCCN
    89010094
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    London ; New York
  • Pages/Volumes
    355 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
  • Classification
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