Psychopathology of rare and unusual syndromes / Femi Oyebode.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Oyebode, Femi, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychology, Pathological.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 264 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Summary:

Rare and unusual psychiatric syndromes have fascinated people for centuries due to their complexity and undefined nature. Appreciating their clinical importance and relevance to understanding other conditions and experiences, this book provides an authoritative account of the rarest and most unusual psychiatric syndromes. The author, a leading authority on clinical psychopathology, delves into the history of the description of such syndromes, illustrates conditions with clinical case examples, and discusses the causes as well as the underlying explanatory mechanisms. The syndromes described draw attention to the way in which abnormal subjective experiences reflect the intersection of biomedical science, social anthropology, social sciences, evolutionary biology and the humanities. The book covers abnormalities of belief, abnormalities of perception, unusual experiences of the body and self, rare and bizarre impairments of memory, and behavioural disturbance. This is a valuable resource for psychiatrists, as well as researchers interested in the relationship between psychiatry and other disciplines.

Contents:

Delusional Misidentification Syndromes

Othello Syndrome

Folie à deux

Couvade Syndrome

Erotomania (De Clérambault syndrome)

Charles Bonnet Syndrome

Musical Hallucinosis

Ekbom Syndrome

Vulvodynia & Penoscrotodynia

Olfactory Reference Syndrome

Multimodal Perceptual Syndrome (Synaethesia)

Depersonalization

Autoscopy and related syndromes

Dissociation: Possession States & Dissociative Identity Disorder

Body integrity identity Disorder

Cotard Syndrome

Confabulation

Ganser State

Diogenes Syndrome.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 26 Aug 2021).

ISBN:

1-108-61280-6

1-108-64496-1

1-108-59165-5

OCLC:

1257313301