Troublesome disguises : managing challenging disorders in psychiatry / edited by Dinesh Bhugra, Gin S. Malhi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bhugra, Dinesh, editor.

Malhi, Gin S., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mental illness--Diagnosis.

Mental illness.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (300 p.)

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom ; Ames, Iowa : John Wiley & Sons Inc., 1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Troublesome Disguises examines psychiatric conditions which are not necessarily uncommon, rare or exotic but are challenging for the clinician who may struggle to reach a diagnosis and to set up management strategies.However, with familiarity, these conditions can and should be recognised. This new edition is an exercise in consciousness-raising as well as a warning to beware of diagnostic systems which, despite their many virtues, may become too influential and may perpetuate errors which are to the detriment of patients.For the clinician struggling to understand and treat patients who fail

Contents:

Shared pathologies / German E Berrios and Ivana S Marková

Paraphrenia / Richard Atkinson and Alistair Burns

Brief reactive psychoses / Wolfgang Gaebel and Juergen Zielasek

Cycloid psychoses / Andrea Schmitt, Berend Malchow, Peter Falkai and Alkomiet Hasan

Borderline personality disorder / John M. Oldham

Recurrent self-harm / Rohan Borschmann and Paul Moran

Finding the truth in the lies : a practical guide to the assessment of malingering / Holly Tabernik and Michael J. Vitacco

Recurrent brief depression : 'this too shall pass'? / Julia Sinclair and David Baldwin

Conversion disorders / S.K. Chaturvedi and Soumya Parameshwaran

ADHD controversies : more or less diagnosis? / Florence Levy

Post-traumatic stress disorder : biological dysfunction or social construction? / Richard Bryant

Bipolar disorder : a troubled diagnosis / Gin Malhi and Michael Berk

Misidentification delusions / Michael Connors, Robyn Langdon and Max Coltheart

Delirium / Sean Heffernan, Karin Neufeld, Esther Oh and Kostas Lyketsos

Paraphilias and culture / Dinesh Bhugra and Deji Ayonrinde

Pseudodementia : history, mystery and positivity / Alistair Burns and David Jolley

Culture bound syndromes / Dinesh Bhugra and Deji Ayonrinde

Delusional infestations / Julio Torales

Baffling clinical encounters : navigating a pain and psychiatric Quichua syndrome / Sioui Maldonado-Bouchard, Lise Bouchard and Mario Incayawar.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781118799604

1118799607

9781118799574

1118799577

9781118799598

1118799593

OCLC:

899007462