Product Description: Schizophrenia is a unique project reflecting the contribution that Robin M. Murray has made to the field of psychiatry over the past 35 years, with a particular focus on the advances that have been made to the understanding and treatment of schizophrenia...read more

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Product Description: R.D. Laing, author of "The Divided Self and Knots", was the best-known and most influential psychiatrist of modern times. In this remarkable biography, the only one to be written by a close relative, Laing's son tells the story of his father's life and examines the foundations of his pioneering and unorthodox work on madness and the family...read more

Product Description: Recent years have shown an increased interest in the cognitive and neural basis of emotion in psychiatric and neurological disorders. Indeed, various methods of behavioural and neural measurement of emotional processes are continually being developed and refined, which has led to an explosion of research in this area...read more

For millennia, human beings have reported hearing 'voices'. From Socrates to the Yorkshire to the Yorkshire Ripper, the impact of voices upon human society has been considerable. This work includes a contemporary synthesis of what is known about voices.

Product Description: For millennia, human beings have reported hearing 'voices'. These experiences have been a source of fascination, sometimes because they spoke of revelation, sometimes because they presaged madness and destruction. From Socrates to the Yorkshire Ripper the impact of voices upon human society has been considerable...read more

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Product Description: Patients with hysterical conversion present with striking physical symptoms such as weakness, sensory disorders or memory loss, that suggest a neurological disease but which show no evidence of brain and central nervous system damage...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: I. Phenomenology of Insight 1. The Description and Meaning of Insight in Psychosis, Xavier Amador and Henry Kronengold 2. Insight in the Psychoses: A Conceptual History, German E. Berrios and Ivana S. Markova 3. Completing Kraepelin's Psychopathology: Insight, Delusion, and the Phenomenology of Illness, K...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Schizophrenia is being increasingly viewed as a neurological disorder. The Neuropsychology of Schizophrenia addresses the key questions in modern schizophrenia research. How do abnormalities of the brain produce the characteristic signs and symptoms of this most severe and mysterious mental malady? Where are these abnormalities? How do they develop? How can we detect them? What clinical and cognitive effects do they have? This new book is the first of its kind to tackle these questions in a systematic way from a number of allied perspectives: from phenomenology to physiology, animal behaviour to metacognition and from PET scans to paper and pencil tests...read more

Product Description: This text is aimed at those studying for the MRCPsych examination, both parts one and two. Candidates can practise their technique in answering both MCQ's and short notes questions and refer to the model answers in order to improve their own answers and as a basis for further study...read more