Rare and unusual psychiatric syndromes have fascinated people for centuries due to their complexity and undefined nature. Appreciating their clinical importance and relevance to understanding other conditions and experiences, this book provides an authoritative account of the rarest and most unusual psychiatric syndromes. The author, a leading authority on clinical psychopathology, delves into the history of the description of such syndromes, illustrates conditions with clinical case examples, and discusses the causes as well as the underlying explanatory mechanisms. The syndromes described draw attention to the way in which abnormal subjective experiences reflect the intersection of biomedical science, social anthropology, social sciences, evolutionary biology and the humanities. The book covers abnormalities of belief, abnormalities of perception, unusual experiences of the body and self, rare and bizarre impairments of memory, and behavioural disturbance. This is a valuable resource for psychiatrists, as well as researchers interested in the relationship between psychiatry and other disciplines.
Author(s): Femi Oyebode
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2021
Language: English
Pages: 274
City: Cambridge
03.0_pp_iv_iv_Copyright_page
04.0_pp_v_v_Contents
05.0_pp_vi_vi_Reviews
06.0_pp_vii_viii_Preface
07.0_pp_1_56_Abnormalities_of_Belief_and_Judgement
07.1_pp_1_13_Delusional_Misidentification_Syndromes
07.2_pp_14_30_Othello_Syndrome
07.3_pp_31_40_Folie_a_Deux
07.4_pp_41_56_Couvade_and_Pseudocyesis
08.0_pp_57_68_Abnormalities_of_the_Experience_of_Love
08.1_pp_57_68_Erotomania_or_de_Clerambault_Syndrome
09.0_pp_69_130_Abnormalities_of_Perception
09.1_pp_69_81_Charles_Bonnet_Syndrome
09.2_pp_82_89_Musical_Hallucinosis
09.3_pp_90_102_Ekbom_Syndrome
09.4_pp_103_110_Vulvodynia_and_Penoscrotodynia
09.5_pp_111_119_Olfactory_Reference_Syndrome
09.6_pp_120_130_Cross-Modal_Perceptual_Syndrome_Synaesthesia
10.0_pp_131_176_Abnormalities_of_the_Self
10.1_pp_131_140_Depersonalization
10.2_pp_141_152_Autoscopy_and_Related_Syndromes
10.3_pp_153_176_Dissociation
11.0_pp_177_192_Abnormalities_of_Experience_of_the_Body
11.1_pp_177_184_Body_Integrity_Identity_Disorder_Xenomelia
11.2_pp_185_192_Cotard_Syndrome
12.0_pp_193_206_Abnormalities_of_Memory_Function
12.1_pp_193_199_Confabulation
12.2_pp_200_206_Ganser_State
13.0_pp_207_212_Abnormalities_of_Behaviour
13.1_pp_207_212_Diogenes_Syndrome
14.0_pp_213_253_References
15.0_pp_254_264_Index
