Author : Peter Halligan
Publisher :
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 38,65 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Medical
ISBN :
Patients with striking symptoms which have no discernible physical cause are typically labelled as suffering from hysterical conversion. This book covers aspects neglected by previous works on this controversial condition, moving away from traditional historico-sociological accounts towards neuroscientific theories about the causes and categorization of hysteria. Importantly, it also covers medico-legal aspects, prognosis, treatment and rehabilitation.
Author : Peter W. Halligan
Publisher :
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 16,70 MB
Release : 2005-05-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780756792596
Patients with striking physical symptoms suggestive of neurological disease, but with no evidence of nervous system damage, are often labeled as suffering from Ôhysterical conversion'. Despite claims that conversion disorders have all but disappeared from clinical practice, patients with these seemingly inexplicable symptoms continue to present severe diagnostic conundrums to clinicians. This book covers aspects neglected by previous works on this controversial condition, moving away from traditional accounts towards neuroscientific theories about the causes & categorization of hysteria. Contains cont's. from a distinguished internat. team. Demonstrates that hysterical conversion remains clinically important. Illustrations.
Author : Peter W. Halligan
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,55 MB
Release : 2023
Category : Hysteria
ISBN : 9781383002133
Moving away from traditional historico-sociological accounts of hysteria towards neuroscientific theories about the causes and categorisation of hysteria, this text also covers medico-legal aspects, prognosis, treatment and rehabilitation.
Author : Bassant Puri
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 1337 pages
File Size : 50,26 MB
Release : 2009-11-27
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0340950056
Succinct, user-friendly, thoroughly referenced and prepared by leading experts in the field, this book is the only single textbook you will need to succeed in the Royal College of Psychiatrists' MRCPsych and other related higher examinations. Chapters follow the structure and syllabus of the examination ensuring that you receive the necessary essential information to pass and indeed succeed Approachable and succinct text with colour illustrations and key summary points further help to clarify complex concepts and provide you with useful revision tools The evidence-based approach used throughout is important to help you relate theory and research to clinical practice The book is carefully structured and sequenced to building upon the basic sciences underpinning psychiatry, through to an in-depth description of pharmacological and psychological treatments used.
Author : Michael R. Nash
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 27,54 MB
Release : 2012-01-19
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0191625833
The Oxford Handbook of Hypnosis is the long overdue successor to Fromm and Nash's Contemporary Hypnosis Research (Guilford Press), which has been regarded as the field's authoritative scholarly reference for over 35 years. This new book is a comprehensive summary of where field has been, where it stands today, and its future directions. The volume's lucid and engaging chapters on the scientific background to the field, fully live up to this uncompromising scholarly legacy. In addition, the scope of the book includes 17 clinical chapters which comprehensively describe how hypnosis is best used with patients across a spectrum of disorders and applied settings. Authored by the world's leading practitioners these contributions are sophisticated, inspiring, and richly illustrated with case examples and session transcripts. For postgraduate students, researchers and clinicians, or anyone wanting to understand hypnosis as a form of treatment, this is the starting point. Unequalled in its breadth and quality, The Oxford Handbook of Hypnosis is the definitive reference text in the field.
Author : Andrew Scull
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 31,64 MB
Release : 2011-10-13
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 019969298X
The story of hysteria is a curious one, for it persists as an illness for centuries before disappearing. Andrew Scull gives a fascinating account of this socially constructed disease that came to be strongly associated with women, showing the shifts in social, cultural, and medical perceptions through history.
Author : D. Wilfred Abse
Publisher : Butterworth-Heinemann
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 15,32 MB
Release : 2013-09-24
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1483221660
Hysteria and Related Mental Disorders: An Approach to Psychological Medicine deals with the problems of diagnosis and their bearing on management and treatment of hysteria and related hysteriform conditions. This book is composed of 16 chapters, and starts with a description of the etiology and psychopathology of hysteria. These topics are followed by intensive discussions on the clinical manifestations and diagnosis of hysteria and related mental disorders, including neurosis, psychosis, schizophrenia, and multiple personality. Other chapters consider the nature of dissociative phenomena from a structural and dynamic point of view, as well as its significance in understanding the etiology of ego disorders. This book also looks into some aspects of language development, the conversion process, and the features of hysteria as a communicative disorder. The last chapters present several medical cases illustrating the differences between conversion hysteria and psychophysiologic autonomic disorder. These chapters also deal with the types of psychotherapy for hysteria. This book is of great value to psychologists, neurologists, clinicians, and psychotherapists.
Author : Edward F. Kelly
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 836 pages
File Size : 12,71 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781442202061
Current mainstream opinion in psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy of mind holds that all aspects of human mind and consciousness are generated by physical processes occurring in brains. Views of this sort have dominated recent scholarly publication. The present volume, however, demonstrates empirically that this reductive materialism is not only incomplete but false. The authors systematically marshal evidence for a variety of psychological phenomena that are extremely difficult, and in some cases clearly impossible, to account for in conventional physicalist terms. Topics addressed include phenomena of extreme psychophysical influence, memory, psychological automatisms and secondary personality, near-death experiences and allied phenomena, genius-level creativity, and 'mystical' states of consciousness both spontaneous and drug-induced. The authors further show that these rogue phenomena are more readily accommodated by an alternative 'transmission' or 'filter' theory of mind/brain relations advanced over a century ago by a largely forgotten genius, F. W. H. Myers, and developed further by his friend and colleague William James. This theory, moreover, ratifies the commonsense conception of human beings as causally effective conscious agents, and is fully compatible with leading-edge physics and neuroscience. The book should command the attention of all open-minded persons concerned with the still-unsolved mysteries of the mind.
Author : Philip Cowen
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 827 pages
File Size : 45,94 MB
Release : 2012-08-09
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0199605610
This volume provides an introduction to all the clinical topics required by the trainee psychiatrist. It emphasizes an evidence-based approach to practice and gives full attention to ethical and legal issues.
Author : Tim Bayne
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 31,95 MB
Release : 2010-10-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1136874879
This volume is an interdisciplinary examination of the relationship between delusions and self-deception, bringing recent work on motivated reasoning to bear on the problems posed by these forms of pathological belief. The volume will appeal to cognitive scientists, clinicians and philosophers interested in the nature of belief and the disturbances to which it is subject.
