American Psychiatric Association
Anterograde Amnesia
capgras
Capgras Delusion
Capgras Syndrome
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Chronic
cognitive
Cognitive Neuropsychiatry
Cotard Delusion
cotard's
Cotard's Syndrome
De Pauw
delusional
DMI
Dystonia Musculorum Deformans
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Face Processing Impairments
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Fregoli Delusion
Fregoli Syndrome
Head Injury
misidentification
neuropsychiatry
Nihilistic Delusions
paramnesias
pauw
Post Traumatic Amnesia
Psychogenic Amnesia
Radcliffe Infirmary
reduplicative
Reduplicative Paramnesias
Retrograde Amnesia
syndrome
Transient Global Amnesia
Verbal IQ
Vice Versa
Product details
- ISBN 9780863774423
- Weight: 590g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 Oct 1996
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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In clinical neuropsychiatry, case studies provide invaluable demonstrations of the range and types of unusual psychological states that can occur after brain damage. In the pursuit of objectivity and scientific respectability, however, many academic reports of neuropsychiatric disorders appear cold, contrived and impersonal. The essence and character of the patient's experience and behaviour is easily obscured or even lost - a fact that cannot help researchers, therapists and other practitioners to relate their conceptual knowledge to the flesh-and-blood people they meet in their professional lives. In practice, much of the actual discourse of such patients has been ignored as unworthy of scientific interest. This book describes real patients in a clear and jargon-free way. These cases should serve to reduce the discrepancy between the formal representations of psychiatric illness in the mainstream literature and the reality of people struggling to make sense of their own predicament in everyday life.
Peter W. Halligan, John C. Marshall
