Sims’ Symptoms in the Mind: Textbook of Descriptive Psychopathology, 7th Edition

Sims’ Symptoms in the Mind: Textbook of Descriptive Psychopathology, 7th Edition Description

Sims’ Symptoms in the Mind: Textbook of Descriptive Psychopathology, 7th Edition is the leading introductory textbook on clinical psychopathology to help you define, clarify, and describe the main symptoms and syndromes of mental illness seen in clinical practice.

Here’s what you will learn in this course:

• Preface to the Seventh Edition
• Additional Materials Within Accompanying Electronic Version

Section I

• CONCEPTS AND METHOD
  • Fundamental Concepts of Descriptive Psychopathology
  • Eliciting the Symptoms of Mental Illness

Section II

• CONSCIOUSNESS AND COGNITION
  • Consciousness and Disturbed Consciousness
  • Attention, Concentration, Orientation and Sleep
  • Disturbance of Memory

Section III

• AWARENESS OF REALITY: TIME, PERCEPTION AND JUDGEMENT
  • Disorder of Time
  • Pathology of Perception
  • Delusions and Other Erroneous Ideas
  • Disorder of the Thinking Process
  • Disorder of Speech and Language
  • Insight,

Section IV

• SELF AND BODY
  • The Disordered Self
  • Depersonalization
  • Disorder of the Awareness of the Body
  • The Psychopathology of Pain

Section V

• EMOTIONS AND ACTION
  • Affect and Emotional Disorders
  • Anxiety, Panic, Irritability, Phobia and Obsession
  • Disorders of Volition and Execution
  • Disorder of Aesthetic Perception and Praxis

Section VI

• VARIATIONS OF HUMAN NATURE
  • The Expression of Disordered Personality

Section VII

• DIAGNOSIS
  • 21 Psychopathology and Diagnosis
  • Self-Assessment 1
  • Self-Assessment 2
  • Self-Assessment 1: Answers
  • Self-Assessment 2: Answers
  • Index