Schizophrenic speech
Subtitle: making sense of bathroots and ponds that fall in doorways
By: Peter J. McKenna, Tomasina M. Oh.
Contributors: Oh, Tomasina M.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
Subjects: Schizophrenia; Schizophasia; Schizophrenia -- complications; Schizophrenia -- diagnosis; Language Disorders -- etiology; Psychiatric Status Rating Scales
Description: Reviews our knowledge of the incoherent speech which can present as a symptom of schizophrenia. This is one of the most researched symptoms in the disorder. The content covers clinical presentation, differential diagnosis and the theories proposed to account for the symptom in these 'thought disordered' patients, ranging from the psychoanalytic to there being a form of aphasia involved. The book is unique in its ability to apply linguistic and neuropsychological approaches to the understanding of this condition, and is the first book to cover comprehensively the range of clinical studies that followed the introduction of Andreasen's rating scale for what was then called thought, language and communication disorder.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.[186]-206) and index.