Madness explained : psychosis and human nature /: psychosis and human nature. (2004)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Richard Bentall.
• Other Names: Bentall, Richard P
• Contents: 1 Emil Kraepelin's big idea : the origins of modern psychiatric theory -- 2 After Kraepelin : how the standard approach to psychiatric classification evolved -- 3 The great classification crisis : how it was discovered that the standard system was scientifically meaningless -- 4 Fool's gold : why psychiatric diagnoses do not work -- 5 The boundaries of madness : why there is no boundary between sanity and madness -- 6 Them and us : modern psychiatry as a cultural system -- 7 The significance of biology : psychosis, the brain and the concept of 'disease' -- 8 Mental life and human nature : madness and the social brain -- 9 Madness and emotion : human emotions and the negative symptoms of psychosis -- 10 Depression and the pathology of self : core psychological processes that are important in severe mental illness -- 11 A colourful malady : the psychology of mania -- 12 Abnormal attitudes : the psychology of delusional beliefs -- 13 On the paranoid world view : towards a unified theory of depression, mania and paranoia -- 14 The illusion of reality : the psychology of hallucinations -- 15 The language of madness : the communication difficulties of psychotic patients -- 16 Things are much more complex than they seem : the instability of psychosis, and the solution to the riddle of psychiatric classification -- 17 From the cradle to the clinic : psychosis considered from a developmental perspective -- 18 The trials of life : how life experiences shape madness -- 19 Madness and society : some implications of post-Kraepelinian psychopathology -- Appendix: A glossary of technical and scientific terms.
• Publisher Details: London : Penguin
• Publication Date: 2004
• Extent: 1 online resource (xvi, 640 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 616.89 BENT; PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health; Mental illness; Mental illness -- Treatment; Psychoses; Mental Disorders -- diagnosis; Mental Disorders -- classification; Psychotic Disorders; Psychiatry; Attitude of Health Personnel; Mental illness; Mental illness -- Treatment; Psychoses; Abnormal Psychology; Psychiatry; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780141909325; 0141909323; 0713992492; 9780713992496
• Related ISBNs: 0140275401; 9780140275407
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 527-622) and index.; Note: Print version record.
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