Handbook of Psychiatry

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Summary

This volume was the first of five, which together give a comprehensive account of clinical psychiatry and its scientific foundations.

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List of contributors
Foreword
Introduction: the sciences and general psychopathology
The Historical Background
Psychiatry in its historical context
The evolution of some basic clinical concepts
Psychosis
Neurosis
Mania and depression
Schizophrenia
Paranoia
Hypochondriasis
Sexology
Epilepsy
'Psychsomatic'
The Clinical Phenomena of Mental Disorders
Descriptive and developmental phenomena
The neuropsychology of mental disorders
Introduction
Disorders of memory
Intellectual function and its disorders
The neuropsychology of emotion
Disorders of language
Socio-cultural variations in symptomatology, incidence and course of illness
Medico-legaL aspects
Taxonomy, Diagnosis and Treatment
The principles of classification in relation to mental disease
Diagnosis and the diagnostic process
The clinical assessment of mental disorders
The principles of treatment and therapeutic evaluation
References
Indexes
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