Sims' Symptoms in the Mind: Textbook of Descriptive Psychopathology E-Book

Femi Oyebode

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Psychopathology – the study of abnormal mental states – is a foundational discipline of psychiatry that is formidable to master. Since 1988, Sims’ Symptoms in the Mind has been the leading introductory textbook in this area and provides the conceptual backbone needed by every psychiatrist in training. It defines and explains the main symptoms and syndromes of mental illness encountered in clinical practice.

Now in its seventh edition, the text has been fully revised and updated by renowned psychiatry professor Femi Oyebode. It provides a masterful introduction to this difficult area that will challenge the reader intellectually, while at the same time supporting his or her learning.

With a combination of accessible text and audiovisual materials in the online ebook, this is the standard postgraduate text for psychiatric trainees as well as a valued reference for academics, clinical psychiatrists and psychologists, allied health professionals, and researchers.

• Complete and practical overview of clinical psychopathology
• New chapter on the emerging area of abnormalities of aesthetic sense
• Expanded information on musical hallucinations, erotomania, abnormalities of the form of thinking, and the intriguing nature of gesture and its disturbance
• Online videos and podcasts covering interviewing techniques and tips
• Multiple choice questions and extended answers, offering different ways to learn
• Fully updated with new knowledge, concepts and theoretical and explanatory models

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• Medical
• Médecine
• Psychiatry

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• Publié par: Elsevier
• Date de parution: 26 juin 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780702085260
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 6 Mo

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Sims' Symptoms in the Mind
Textbook of Descriptive Psychopathology
Seventh Edition

Femi Oyebode, MBBS, MD, PhD, FRCPsych, FRCPsych (Honorary)
Honorary Professor of Psychiatry, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
Table of Contents
Instructions for online access
Cover image
Title page
Copyright
Preface to the Seventh Edition
Additional Materials Within Accompanying Electronic Version
Dedication
Section I. Concepts and Method
Chapter 1. Fundamental Concepts of Descriptive Psychopathology
Summary
What Is Psychopathology?
Phenomenology and Psychopathology
Concepts
Chapter 2. Eliciting the Symptoms of Mental Illness
Summary
Diagnosis and Labelling
The Psychiatric History
Premorbid, Previous or Usual Personality
Differentiation of Personality Disorder
Systematic Enquiry
Section II. Consciousness and Cognition
Chapter 3. Consciousness and Disturbed Consciousness
Summary
Disorders of Consciousness
Chapter 4. Attention, Concentration, Orientation and Sleep
Summary
Attention, Awareness and Concentration
Orientation
Sleep Disorders
Dreams
Hypnosis
Chapter 5. Disturbance of Memory
Summary
Mechanisms of Memory
Organic Impairment of Memory
Disturbances of Memory
Affective Disorder of Memory
Section III. Awareness of Reality: Time, Perception and Judgement
Chapter 6. Disorder of Time
Summary
Disorder of Objective Time
Disorder of Subjective (Personal) Time
Biological Rhythms and Their Relation to Psychiatry
Chapter 7. Pathology of Perception
Summary
Sensation and Perception
Abnormal Perception
Hallucination
Pseudohallucinations
Other Abnormalities of Perception
Chapter 8. Delusions and Other Erroneous Ideas
Summary
Ideas, Beliefs and Delusions
Primary and Secondary Delusions
Types of Primary Delusion
The Origins of Delusion
Content of Delusions
The Reality of Delusions
Erroneous Ideation
Chapter 9. Disorder of the Thinking Process
Summary
Types of Thinking
The Processes of Disordered Thinking
Disturbance of Judgement
Disorder of Control of Thinking
Chapter 10. Disorder of Speech and Language
Summary
Speech Disturbances
Organic Disorders of Language
Schizophrenic Language Disorder
Chapter 11. Insight
Summary
Insight in Clinical Practice
Overview of the Concept
Insight and Cognitive Impairment
Section IV. Self and Body
Chapter 12. The Disordered Self
Summary
Ego and Self
Embodiment and the Self
Self-Concept and Body Image
Self-Image and Nonverbal Communication
Awareness of the Body
Disorders of Self
Chapter 13. Depersonalization
Summary
Definitions and Descriptions
Organic and Psychological Theories
Depersonalization: Further Considerations
Chapter 14. Disorder of the Awareness of the Body
Summary
The Body in Psychopathology
Classification
Disorders of Beliefs About the Body (Bodily Complaint Without Organic Cause)
Disorders of Bodily Function—Conversion and Dissociation
Disorders of the Physical Characteristics and Emotional Value of the Body (Dislike of the Body)
Disorders of the Physical Characteristics of the Body
Disorders of the Sensory Awareness of the Body (Organic Changes in Body Image)
Culture-Bound Disorders of Body Image
Chapter 15. The Psychopathology of Pain
Summary
Organic or Psychogenic Pain?
Pain and Heightened Sensation
Diminished Pain Sensation and Pain Craving
Pain Without Organic Cause
Pain and Suffering
Section V. Emotions and Action
Chapter 16. Affect and Emotional Disorders
Summary
Theories of Emotion
Basic Emotions
Communication of Mood
Classification of Pathology of Emotions
Pathologic Changes in Basic Emotions
Abnormality of Experience and Physiologic Activity
Abnormalities of Evaluation
Abnormality of Mood in Bipolar Disorder
Depression of Mood
Mania
Chapter 17. Anxiety, Panic, Irritability, Phobia and Obsession
Summary
Anxiety
Irritability
Obsessions and Compulsions
Chapter 18. Disorders of Volition and Execution
Summary
Urge, Drive and Will and Their Disturbance
Abnormalities of Need, Instinct, Motivation and Will
Impulsive and Aggressive Acts
Disturbance of Movement and Behaviour
Chapter 19. Disorder of Aesthetic Perception and Praxis
Summary
Abnormal Aesthetic Perceptions
Section VI. Variations of Human Nature
Chapter 20. The Expression of Disordered Personality
Summary
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Schizoid Personality Disorder
Dissocial Personality Disorder
Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder
Histrionic Personality Disorder
Anankastic Personality Disorder
Anxious (Avoidant) Personality Disorder
Dependent Personality Disorder
Persistent Mood Disorders
Other Personality Disorders
Section VII. Diagnosis
Chapter 21. Psychopathology and Diagnosis
Summary
Concepts of Health and Psychopathology
Use of Symptoms to Form Diagnostic Categories
Postscript
Self-Assessment 1
Self-Assessment 2
Self-Assessment 1: Answers
Self-Assessment 2: Answers
Index
Copyright
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Second edition 1995
Third edition 2005
Fourth edition 2008
Fifth edition 2015
Sixth edition 2018
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Preface to the Seventh Edition
In this new seventh edition, as in the previous editions, I have retained the original structure of the book but made some changes and many additions. I have added a new chapter on abnormalities of aesthetic perception and praxis. This new chapter deals with a little discussed but nonetheless important aspect of human existence, namely, our sense of the beautiful, which is fundamental to social life and that is very definitely affected by psychopathology. Other notable additions include an expanded description of Ganser State, Charles Bonnet syndrome, autoscopy, jealousy, erotomania and thought disorder. I have also included a section on musical hallucinations and on the nature of gestures and gestural abnormalities. These additions, like the additions in earlier editions, are prompted by my desire to ensure that readers fully appreciate that psychopathology is not a dead subject but one that is alive and is constantly in need of revision in response to conceptual changes or new empirical findings.
It is my belief that descriptive psychopathology, as a method, is the pre-eminent foundation for the practice of clinical psychiatry. This method allows us to observe and describe abnormal subjective phenomena and behaviours, and to categorize these in order to communicate more precisely about the world that patients inhabit. The clinician trained in the phenomenological approach is all the more aware of the need for empathic understanding, for assuming an atheoretical stance and finally of the provisional status of our understanding and explanations regarding psychopathology. Descriptive psychopathology is today even more relevant to the endeavours of clinicians and researchers. The standard psychiatric nomenclature is under strain. This means that the fundamental abnormal phenomena, the infrastructure of nosology, must of necessity assume greater importance in clinical practice. Otherwise the ability to communicate meaningfully across the profession will markedly deteriorate.
I am indebted to many more people than I can list. The Birmingham Philosophy Group has been meeting regularly since 1992. Its members (Theo Arvantis, Lenia Constantine, Simon O’Loughlin, Kate Robertson, Sandy Robertson and Persephone Sextou) continue to influence my thinking about psychiatric phenomena as do the members of the European Psychiatric Association Section of Psychopathology including Guenda Bernegger, Paolo Colavero, John Cutting, Maria Luisa Figueira, Mircea Lazarescu, Luis Madeira, Michael Musalek, Gilberto di Petta and Pedro Varandas. Finally, without the patients who experience and endure these abnormal phenomena, and the students and psychiatric trainees who ask awkward questions and out of curiosity enquire into the nature of these phenomena, this book would def