Sims' symptoms in the mind : an introduction to descriptive psychopathology Femi Oyebode

Contents : Fundamental concepts of descriptive psychopathology -- Eliciting the symptoms of mental illness -- Consciousness and disturbed consciousness -- Attention, concentration, orientation and sleep -- Disturbance of memory -- Disorder of time -- Pathology of perception -- Delusions and other erroneous ideas -- Disorder of the thinking process -- Disorder of speech and language -- Disorder of intellectual performance --Insight -- The disordered self -- Depersonalization -- Disorder of the awareness of the body -- Disorders of gender and sexuality -- The psychopathology of pain -- Affect and emotional disorders -- Anxiety, panic, irritability, phobia and obsession -- Disorders of volition and execution -- The expression of disordered personality -- Psychopathology of neurotic disorders -- Psychopathology and diagnosis. Rev. ed. of: Symptoms in the mind / Andrew C.P. Sims. 3rd ed. 2003. Includes bibliographical references and index