Sims' symptoms in the mind
Subtitle: an introduction to descriptive psychopathology.
Contributors: Sims, A. C. P.
Edition: 4th ed. / Femi Oyebode.
Publisher: Saunders
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Edinburgh; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 487
ISBN-13: 9780702028854
Subjects: Psychology, Pathological; Mental Disorders -- psychology; Psychopathology -- methods
Other titles: Symptoms in the mind
Description: Sims' 'Symptoms in the Mind' has, since its first publication in 1988, become established as a leading introductory textbook on clinical psychopathology. This edition has been fully updated to include advances in neuropsychology and cognitive neuroscience since the third edition.
Notes: Rev. ed. of: Symptoms in the mind / Andrew C.P. Sims. 3rd ed. 2003.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Fundamental concepts of descriptive psychopathology; title: Eliciting the symptoms of mental illness; title: Consciousness and disturbed consciousness; title: Attention, concentration, orientation and sleep; title: Disturbance of memory; title: Disorder of time; title: Pathology of perception; title: Delusions and other erroneous ideas; title: Disorder of the thinking process; title: Disorder of speech and language; title: Disorder of intellectual performance; title: Insight; title: The disordered self; title: Depersonalization; title: Disorder of the awareness of the body; title: Disorders of gender and sexuality; title: The psychopathology of pain; title: Affect and emotional disorders; title: Anxiety, panic, irritability, phobia and obsession; title: Disorders of volition and execution; title: The expression of disordered personality; title: Psychopathology of neurotic disorders; title: Psychopathology and diagnosis.