Sims' symptoms in the mind : textbook of descriptive psychopathology

This fifth edition has been updated to include advances in neuropsychology and cognitive neuroscience. Contents include: 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.