This text is designed to provide students at various levels of experience and training with illustrative examples of individuals with different forms of psychopathology. The work is designed primarily for students who are studying descriptive psychopathology, including psychiatric residents, medical students on psychiatry rotations graduate students in psychology, or students in various related mental health fields, including psychiatric nursing, social work and school counselling. The stories are written to illustrate the key elements of psychopathology for these various disorders. Each is written from two perspectives: the perspective of the individual who has the disorder, and the perspective of someone else in their environment (for example a family member, a friend, a doctor). The thoughts of these individuals, as opposed to their speech, are given in parentheses. This design was chosen to attempt to illustrate not only how people with these disorders think and feel themselves, but also how they appear to other people around them. The emphasis, therefore, is on the difficulties, often the suffering, experienced by people with various mental illnesses, and also on the adverse impact these illnesses have on others, which is often substantial.
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Two features distinguish Points of View: good writing and an appealing format. The book is fairly simple and straightforward in its approach. The excellent writing is highly readable.
–John C. Racy, M.D. University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, Arizona
–John C. Racy, M.D. University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, Arizona
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I think the cases are oversimplified and don't really capture the essence of clinical practice. If you are interested in this subject there are many other books that are better suited to this. A good option would be an introductory psychiatry book.
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The pivotal symptoms of delirium are a disturbance of consciousness (how fully aware one is of one's surroundings) coupled with a change in cognitive functioning of thinking, that are not accounted for by some other condition. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
individuals with this disorder, amphetamine dependence, body dysmorphic disorder, pathological gambling, compensatory behaviors, direct physiological effects, dissociative identity disorder, somatization disorder Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, References American Psychiatric Association, New York, Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, Psychiatric Clinics of North America, Ben Steele, Clinical Psychology Review, Father Martin, United States, American Family Physician, Biological Psychiatry, Dick Jackson, Larry Batesman, Pervasive Developmental Disorder, Psychopharmacology Bulletin, Separation Anxiety Disorder, Archives of Neurology, Behavior Research Therapy, Current Opinion, Harvard Review of Psychiatry, International Journal of Eating Disorders, Journal of Neurology, Malcolm Jefferies, Medical Journal of Australia, Postgraduate Medicine New!
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The pivotal symptoms of delirium are a disturbance of consciousness (how fully aware one is of one's surroundings) coupled with a change in cognitive functioning of thinking, that are not accounted for by some other condition. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
individuals with this disorder, amphetamine dependence, body dysmorphic disorder, pathological gambling, compensatory behaviors, direct physiological effects, dissociative identity disorder, somatization disorder Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, References American Psychiatric Association, New York, Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, Psychiatric Clinics of North America, Ben Steele, Clinical Psychology Review, Father Martin, United States, American Family Physician, Biological Psychiatry, Dick Jackson, Larry Batesman, Pervasive Developmental Disorder, Psychopharmacology Bulletin, Separation Anxiety Disorder, Archives of Neurology, Behavior Research Therapy, Current Opinion, Harvard Review of Psychiatry, International Journal of Eating Disorders, Journal of Neurology, Malcolm Jefferies, Medical Journal of Australia, Postgraduate Medicine New!
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- Clinical Psychiatry by William V. Mayer on page 167, and page 176
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- Eating Disorders (WPA Series in Evidence & Experience in Psychiatry) by Mario Maj on page 177
- Obstetrics and Gynecology (OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY (BECKMAN)) by Charles R.B. Beckmann on page 132
- Forced Migration and Scientific Change: Emigré German-Speaking Scientists and Scholars after 1933 (Publications of the German Historical Institute) by Mitchell G. Ash on page 23, and page 122
- Blake, Kierkegaard, and the Spectre of Dialectic by Lorraine Clark in Back Matter
- Understanding Ethical Failures in Leadership (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Public Policy) by Terry Price on page 79
- Gestalt Psychology in German Culture, 1890-1967: Holism and the Quest for Objectivity (Cambridge Studies in the History of Psychology) by Mitchell G. Ash in Back Matter
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