Troublesome disguises : underdiagnosed psychiatric syndromes

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Troublesome disguises : underdiagnosed psychiatric syndromes

edited by Dinesh Bhugra and Alistair Munro

Blackwell Science, 1997

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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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

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