Delusional misidentification / Garry Young.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Young, Garry, 1966-

Series:

Psychiatry- theory, applications, and treatments series.

Psychiatry-- theory, applications, and treatments series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Delusions.

Capgras syndrome.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (77 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Nova Science, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The aim of this book is to challenge the two-stage model's unidirectional approach to explanation -- from neurological disruption, to anomalous experience, to full blown delusion -- which has resulted in the marginalisation of the role played by the patient's underling phenomenology in accounting for the formation and maintenance of the delusional belief. By comparing the experiences of Capgras and Fr goli patient with those suffering from other related, but non-delusional, facial recognition pathologies, and mapping these differences onto functional disruptions known to occur within the facial recognition system, a description of the delusional patient's experience emerges that is necessarily something more than simply anomalous.

Contents:

Delusional misidentification

Capgras and Frégoli delusions : the story so far

Introducing pathologies of facial recognition

The Capgras delusion

The interactionist model

Elevating the role of patient phenomenology.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61324-333-2

OCLC:

733057098