Sims' Symptoms in the Mind: Textbook of Descriptive Psychopathology [Lingua inglese]

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Sims\' Symptoms in the Mind: Textbook of Descriptive Psychopathology
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Table Of Contents
Dedication
Preface to the Sixth Edition
Additional Materials Within Accompanying Electronic Version
1 Concepts and Method
	1 Fundamental Concepts of Descriptive Psychopathology
		Keywords
		Summary
		What Is Psychopathology?
		Phenomenology and Psychopathology
		Concepts
			Disease and Illness
			Norms, Normal and Abnormal
			Understanding and Un-Understandable
			Empathy
			Form and Content
			Primary and Secondary Phenomena
			Subjectivity and Objectivity in Psychopathology
			Unconscious Experience and Phenomenology
			Organic and Neural Substrates and Psychopathology
			Mind–Brain Duality and Psychopathology
		References
	2 Eliciting the Symptoms of Mental Illness
		Keywords
		Summary
		Diagnosis and Labelling
		The Psychiatric History
		Premorbid, Previous or Usual Personality
		Differentiation of Personality Disorder
			The Mental State Examination
		Systematic Enquiry
		References
2 Consciousness and Cognition
	3 Consciousness and Disturbed Consciousness
		Keywords
		Summary
		Disorders of Consciousness
			Dimensional Changes in Levels of Consciousness
				Unconsciousness
				Abnormalities of Vigilance
				Abnormalities of Lucidity
				Abnormalities of Consciousness of Self
			Qualitative Changes of Consciousness
				Delirium.
				Fluctuation of Consciousness
				Confusion
			Other Terms
				Twilight State
				Mania à Potu (Pathologic Intoxication)
				Automatism
				Dream-Like (Oneiroid) State
				Stupor
				Sleep Disorders
		References
	4 Attention, Concentration, Orientation and Sleep
		Keywords
		Summary
		Attention, Awareness and Concentration
			Alteration of the Degree of Attention
			Disorder of Attention in Psychosis
			Hemi-Inattention
		Orientation
			Disorientation
				Delusions That Mimic Disorientation
				Dissociation and Disorientation
		Sleep Disorders
			Insomnia
			Hypersomnia
			Parasomnias
		Dreams
		Hypnosis
		References
	5 Disturbance of Memory
		Keywords
		Summary
		Mechanisms of Memory
			Sensory Memory
			Short-Term Memory
			Long-Term Memory
		Organic Impairment of Memory
			Impairment of Registration/Encoding
			Impairment of Retention
			Impairment of Retrieval or Recall
			Impairment of Recognition
		Disturbances of Memory
			Normal Variations
				Déjà Vu and Related Phenomena (Paramnesia)
				Selective Forgetting
				Falsification of Memory
			Meaningful Disturbances of Memory
				Psychogenic Disturbance of Memory
				Dissociative Focal Retrograde Amnesia
				Dissociative Fugue
				Recovered Memory and False Memory Syndrome
			Memory Disturbance Secondary to Psychiatric Disorder
				Confabulation
				Perseveration
				Memory Impairment in Schizophrenia
		Affective Disorder of Memory
			Ganser State
		References
3 Awareness of Reality: Time, Perception and Judgement
	6 Disorder of Time
		Keywords
		Summary
			Objective (Clock) Time and Subjective (Personal) Time
			Biological Rhythms and Time
		Disorder of Objective Time
			Disorientation in Time
			Age Disorientation
			Disorder of Time Duration
			Disorder of Chronology (Temporal Order)
		Disorder of Subjective (Personal) Time
			Disorder of Flow of Time
			Disorder of Direction of Time
			Disorder of Uniqueness of Time
			Disorder of the Quality of Time
		Biological Rhythms and Their Relation to Psychiatry
			Circadian Rhythms
			Monthly Cycles
			Seasonal Variation
			Life Epochs
		References
	7 Pathology of Perception
		Keywords
		Summary
		Sensation and Perception
			Imagery
			Form Constants, Extension and Synaesthesia
			Private Speech and Inner Speech
		Abnormal Perception
			Sensory Distortions
				Elementary Aspects of Visual Perception
				Elementary Aspects of Auditory Perception
				Elementary Aspects of Tactile Perception
				Splitting of Perception
			False Perception
				Illusion
		Hallucination
			Auditory Hallucination
			Visual Hallucination
			Hallucination of Bodily Sensation
			Olfactory and Gustatory Hallucination
				Olfactory Hallucinations
				Gustatory Hallucinations
			Differentiation of Hallucinations
		Pseudohallucinations
		Other Abnormalities of Perception
			Autoscopy
			Extracampine Hallucination (Concrete Awareness)
			Hypnagogic and Hypnopompic Hallucination
			Functional Hallucination
			Reflex Hallucination
			Abnormal Imagery
			Sensory Deprivation
		References
	8 Delusions and Other Erroneous Ideas
		Keywords
		Summary
		Ideas, Beliefs and Delusions
			Meaning of Delusion
				Definition of Delusion
		Primary and Secondary Delusions
			The Ultimately Ununderstandable
			How Ideas and Delusions Are Initiated
			Secondary Delusions
		Types of Primary Delusion
			Autochthonous Delusion (Delusional Intuition)
			Delusional Percept
			Delusional Atmosphere
			Delusional Memory
		The Origins of Delusion
			Cognition and Reasoning in Delusion
				Attribution in Delusion
				Delusion and Meaning in Life
		Content of Delusions
			Delusions of Persecution
			Morbid Jealousy and Delusion of Infidelity
			Delusions of Love
			Delusional Misidentification
			Grandiose Delusions
			Religious Delusions
			Delusions of Guilt and Unworthiness
			Delusions of Poverty and Nihilistic Delusions
			Hypochondriacal Delusions
				Delusions of Infestation
			Communicated Insanity
			Delusions of Control
		The Reality of Delusions
		Erroneous Ideation
			Overvalued Idea
			Paranoid Ideas and Syndromes
		References
	9 Disorder of the Thinking Process
		Keywords
		Summary
		Types of Thinking
			Fantasy Thinking
			Imaginative Thinking
			Rational or Conceptual Thinking
			Heuristics and Decision-Making
		The Processes of Disordered Thinking
			A Model of Associations Based on Jaspers
			Acceleration of Thinking
			Retardation
			Circumstantial Thinking
			Interruption to the Flow of Thought
				Thought Blocking
			Changes in the Flow of Thinking
		Disturbance of Judgement
			Disturbance of Judgement and Delusion
			Concrete Thinking
			Psychological Theories of Thinking in Schizophrenia
				Over-Inclusive Thinking
				Schizophrenic Inattention and Abnormality of Working Memory: Effect on Performance
		Disorder of Control of Thinking
			Delusions of the Control of Thought
				First-Rank Symptoms of Schizophrenia
				Examples of First-Rank Symptoms
		References
	10 Disorder of Speech and Language
		Keywords
		Summary
		Speech Disturbances
			Aphonia and Dysphonia
			Dysarthria
			Stuttering and Stammering
			Logoclonia
			Echolalia
			Changes in the Volume and Intonation of Speech
			Unintelligible Speech
		Organic Disorders of Language
			Sensory Dysphasia
				Pure Word Deafness (Subcortical Auditory Dysphasia)
				Pure Word Blindness (Subcortical Visual Aphasia)
				Primary Sensory Dysphasia (Receptive Dysphasia)
				Nominal Dysphasia
				Jargon Dysphasia
			Motor Aphasia
				Pure Word Dumbness
				Pure Agraphia
				Primary Motor Dysphasia
				Alexia With Agraphia
				Isolated Speech Area
			Mutism
		Schizophrenic Language Disorder
			Clinical Description and Thought Disorder
				Misuse of Words and Phrases
				Destruction of Words and Grammar
			Psychogenic Abnormalities
			Statistical Model of Language
			Linguistic Approaches to Schizophrenia
				Syntactical Analysis
				Propositional Analysis
		References
	11 Insight
		Keywords
		Summary
		Insight in Clinical Practice
		Overview of the Concept
			Development of the Concept
			Measurement of Insight
			Schizophrenia
		Insight and Cognitive Impairment
			Outcome
			Bipolar Disorders
			Criticisms of the Concept
			Aetiology of Impaired Insight
		References
4 Self and Body
	12 The Disordered Self
		Keywords
		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
			Disorder of Being or Ego Vitality
			Disorder of Activity
			Disorder of Singleness or Ego Consistency and Coherence
				Autoscopy (Heautoscopy)
				Multiple Personality (Dissociative Identity Disorder)
				Lability in the Awareness of Personality
			Disorder of Identity
				Possession State
			Disorder of the Boundaries of Self or Ego Demarcation
				Boundaries of Self in Schizophrenia
				Other Alterations to Boundaries
		References
	13 Depersonalization
		Keywords
		Summary
		Definitions and Descriptions
			Subjective Experience of Depersonalization
		Organic and Psychological Theories
		Depersonalization: Further Considerations
		References
	14 Disorder of the Awareness of the Body
		Keywords
		Summary
		The Body in Psychopathology
		Classification
		Disorders of Beliefs About the Body (Bodily Complaint Without Organic Cause)
			Hypochondriasis
				What Is Hypochondriasis?
				Psychopathology of the Hypochondriacal Patient
		Disorders of Bodily Function – Conversion and Dissociation
		Disorders of the Physical Characteristics and Emotional Value of the Body (Dislike of the Body)
			Dysmorphophobia (Body Dysmorphic Disorder)
			Body Integrity Identity Disorder
			Transsexualism
			Disturbance of Eating and Body Size
				Obesity
				Anorexia Nervosa
				Bulimia Nervosa
				Muscle Dysmorphia
		Disorders of the Sensory Awareness of the Body (Organic Changes in Body Image)
			Pathologic Accentuation of Body Image (Hyperschemazia)
			Diminished or Absent Body Image (Hyposchemazia, Aschemazia)
			Distortion of the Body Image (Paraschemazia)
				Phantom Limb
		Culture-Bound Disorders of Body Image
		References
	15 The Psychopathology of Pain
		Keywords
		Summary
		Organic or Psychogenic Pain?
		Pain and Heightened Sensation
		Diminished Pain Sensation and Pain Craving
		Pain Without Organic Cause
			Pain and Loss
			Psychogenic Facial Pain
			Burning Mouth Syndrome
			Vulvodynia
			Psychogenic Itch
		Pain and Suffering
		References
5 Emotions and Action
	16 Affect and Emotional Disorders
		Keywords
		Summary
		Theories of Emotion
		Basic Emotions
		Communication of Mood
		Classification of Pathology of Emotions
		Pathologic Changes in Basic Emotions
			Changes in Intensity of Emotions
				Diminution of Intensity: Feeling of a Loss of Feeling
				Anhedonia
				Exacerbation of Emotions: Melancholia, Mania, Ecstasy
				Intensification of Fear, Anger and Surprise
			Changes in Timing, Duration and Appropriateness to Situation
				Timing, Duration and Appropriateness to Situation
			Abnormalities of Expression and Appropriateness to Object
				Blunting and Flattening of Feeling
				Bodily Feelings Associated With Emotion
				Feelings Attached to the Perception of Objects
				Feelings Directed Towards People
				Free-Floating Emotion
		Abnormality of Experience and Physiologic Activity
		Abnormalities of Evaluation
		Abnormality of Mood in Bipolar Disorder
		Depression of Mood
			Core Experience: Psychological and Physical
			Shame and Guilt
			Suicidal Thoughts
			Depression and Loss
				Grief
		Mania
		References
	17 Anxiety, Panic, Irritability, Phobia and Obsession
		Keywords
		Summary
		Anxiety
			Panic Attacks and Disorder
			Phobic States
			Anxiety in Other Disorders
		Irritability
		Obsessions and Compulsions
		References
	18 Disorders of Volition and Execution
		Keywords
		Summary
		Urge, Drive and Will and Their Disturbance
		Abnormalities of Need, Instinct, Motivation and Will
			Organic Causes
			Disturbance of Volition in Schizophrenia
			Disturbance of Volition in Mood Disorders
		Impulsive and Aggressive Acts
			Psychopathology of Impulsive and Aggressive Behaviour
			Diminished Aggression
		Disturbance of Movement and Behaviour
			Disturbance of Movement
				Agitation
				Hyperactivity
				Retardation
				Disorder of Movement in Schizophrenia
				Isolated Disorders of Movement and Posture
				Motor Disorders in Chronic Schizophrenia
				Motor Disorder in Brain Disease
					Parkinson’s Disease.
					Extrapyramidal Side Effects of Antipsychotic Drugs.
				Huntington’s Chorea
				Tics and Gilles de la Tourette’s Syndrome
			Disturbance of Behaviour
				Behavioural Disorders of Schizophrenia
				Behavioural Signs of Emotional Disturbance
		References
6 Variations of Human Nature
	19 The Expression of Disordered Personality
		Keywords
		Summary
		Paranoid Personality Disorder
		Schizoid Personality Disorder
		Dissocial Personality Disorder
		Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder
			Impulsive Type
			Borderline Type
		Histrionic Personality Disorder
		Anankastic Personality Disorder
		Anxious (Avoidant) Personality Disorder
		Dependent Personality Disorder
		Persistent Mood Disorders
		Other Personality Disorders
			Narcissistic Personality Disorder
			Avoidant Personality Disorder
		References
7 Diagnosis
	20 Psychopathology and Diagnosis
		Keywords
		Summary
		Concepts of Health and Psychopathology
		Use of Symptoms to Form Diagnostic Categories
			The Present State Examination
		Postscript
			Uses of Psychopathology
			Need for Research
		References
Self-Assessment 1
	Instructions
	Chapter 1
	Chapter 2
	Chapter 3
	Chapter 4
	Chapter 5
	Chapter 6
	Chapter 7
	Chapter 8
	Chapter 9
	Chapter 10
	Chapter 11
	Chapter 12
	Chapter 13
	Chapter 14
	Chapter 15
	Chapter 16
	Chapter 17
	Chapter 18
	Chapter 19
	Chapter 20
Self-Assessment 2
	Instructions
	Chapters 3 and 4
	Chapter 5
	Chapter 7
	Chapter 8
	Chapter 9
	Chapter 10
	Chapter 14
	Chapter 16
	Chapter 17
	Chapter 18
Self-Assessment 1: Answers
	Chapter 1
	Chapter 2
	Chapter 3
	Chapter 4
	Chapter 5
	Chapter 6
	Chapter 7
	Chapter 8
	Chapter 9
	Chapter 10
	Chapter 11
	Chapter 12
	Chapter 13
	Chapter 14
	Chapter 15
	Chapter 16
	Chapter 17
	Chapter 18
	Chapter 19
	Chapter 20
Self-Assessment 2: Answers
	Chapters 3 and 4
	Chapter 5
	Chapter 7
	Chapter 8
	Chapter 9
	Chapter 10
	Chapter 14
	Chapter 16
	Chapter 17
	Chapter 18
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