The History of Mental Symptoms: Descriptive Psychopathology Since the Nineteenth CenturyThis important book, written by a psychiatrist-historian, traces the genesis of the descriptive categories of psychopathology and examines their interaction with the psychological and philosophical context within which they arose. The author explores particularly the language and ideas that have characterized descriptive psychopathology from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. He presents a masterful survey of the history of the main psychiatric symptoms, from the metaphysics of classical antiquity to the operational criteria of today. Tracing the evolution of concepts such as memory, consciousness, will and personality, and of symptoms ranging from catalepsy and aboulia to anxiety and self-harm, this book provides fascinating insights into the subjective nature of mental illness, and into the ideas of British, Continental and American authorities who have clarified and defined it. |
Contents
Matters historical | 7 |
Descriptive psychopathology | 15 |
Cognition and consciousness | 33 |
Disorders of perception | 35 |
Thought disorder | 71 |
Delusions | 85 |
Obsessions and compulsions | 140 |
Mental Retardation | 157 |
The anhedonias | 332 |
Volition and action | 349 |
The will and its disorders | 351 |
Feelings of fatigue | 369 |
Catalepsy catatonia and stupor | 378 |
Tremor rigidity akathisia and stereotypy | 397 |
Miscellany | 417 |
Personality and its disorders | 419 |
Cognitive impairment | 172 |
Memory and its disorders | 208 |
Consciousness and its disorders | 229 |
Mood and emotions | 261 |
Anxiety and cognate disorders | 263 |
Affect and its disorders | 289 |
Selfharm | 443 |
References | 455 |
Name Index | 534 |
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