Troublesome disguises : underdiagnosed psychiatric syndromes

Author(s)

• Bhugra, Dinesh
• Munro, Alistair

Bibliographic Information

Troublesome disguises : underdiagnosed psychiatric syndromes

edited by Dinesh Bhugra and Alistair Munro

Blackwell Science, 1997

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Trouble Disguises fills the gap in providing an up-to-date text that looks at the topic of psychiatric disorders in an academic way, with detailed management and discussion. The two editors have assembled a strong team of experts from Europe, America and Australia to produce this comprehensive, clinically focussed volume.

Table of Contents

• List of Contributors
• Preface
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Misidentification Syndromes
• 3. Paranoia or Delusional Disorder
• 4. Reactive Psychoses
• 5. Paraphrenia
• 6. Factitious Disorders
• 7. Disorders of Passion
• 8. Folie a Deux
• 9. Pseudodementia
• 10. Deliberate Self-Harm
• 11. Recurrent Brief Depression: "Nasty, Brutish and Short"
• 12. Paraphilias
• 13. A Semantic and Clinical Muddle
• 14. Atypical Illnesses
• 15. Culture-Bound Syndromes
• 16. Conclusions
• Index

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA44729173
• ISBN:
  • 0865426740
• LCCN: 97004247
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Osney Mead, Oxford
• Pages/Volumes: ix, 351 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : RC469
  • NLM : WM 141 T859 1997
  • DC21 : 616.89/075
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Mental illness -- Diagnosis
  • LCSH : Diagnosis, Differential
  • MESH : Mental Disorders -- diagnosis