Author: Alistair Munro
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: illnesses, related, paranoia, disorder, delusional
Number of Pages: 261
Published: 1999-06-15
List price: $135.00
ISBN-10: 052158180X
ISBN-13: 9780521581806

Delusional disorder, once termed paranoia, was an important diagnosis in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Only in 1987 was it reintroduced into modern psychiatric diagnosis after being incorporated with schizophrenia. This book provides a comprehensive review of delusional disorder for psychiatrists and other clinicians. Beginning with the emergence of the concept of delusional disorder, the book goes on to detail its manifold presentations, differential diagnosis, and treatment. The author provides many instructive case histories, illustrating manifestations of the various

Author: Salomon Resnik
Publisher: Karnac Books
Keywords: psychosis, feelings, bodily, person, delusional
Number of Pages: 260
Published: 2001-08-11
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 185575262X
ISBN-13: 9781855752627

In a long and distinguished career Salomon Resnik has established himself as a psychoanalyst of international reputation. The present volume gathers together, for the first time in an English translation, writings essential for a fuller understanding of his important and original ideas.

Authors:Philippa A. Garety, David R. Hemsley,
Publisher: Psychology Press
Keywords: maudsley, series, reasoning, delusional, investigations, psychology, delusions
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1997-04-01
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0863777856
ISBN-13: 9780863777851

The authors offer cogent reviews of the literature pertaining to the formation and maintenance of delusions, but the most substantial parts of the monograph expound the empirical inquiries which they and their colleagues have carried out in recent years. Most of the research has been published elsewhere, but such is the relevance of the experiments cited to the whole schema that the monograph has unique value. It is a synthesis which portrays the contribution to date of cognitive science to the biology and psychopathology of delusional thinking, and convincingly demonstrates that this way of l