Delusional Disorder
Paranoia and Related Illnesses

Comprehensive clinically oriented review of delusional disorder, including case histories and treatment guidelines.

Alistair Munro (Author)

9780521029803, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 2 November 2006

276 pages, 1 b/w illus.
22.8 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.413 kg

'… an interesting book on an elusive disorder.' Royce Lee, MD

Delusional disorder, once termed paranoia, was an important diagnosis in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and only in 1987 was it reintroduced into modern psychiatric diagnosis after being subsumed with schizophrenia. This book provides a comprehensive review of delusional disorder for psychiatrists and other clinicians. Beginning with the emergence of the concept of delusional disorder, the book goes on to detail its manifold presentations, differential diagnosis and treatment. Many instructive case histories are provided, illustrating manifestations of the various subtypes of delusional disorder, and related conditions in the paranoid spectrum. This is the most wide-ranging and authoritative text on the subject to have appeared for many years, and the first to suggest, based on the author's extensive experience, that the category of delusional disorder should contain not one but several conditions. It also emphasizes that, contrary to traditional belief, delusional disorder is a treatable illness.

List of case descriptions
Preface
Part I. Delusional Disorders and Delusions: Introductory Aspects: 1. Outline and introduction: a brief perspective on the delusional disorders
Part II. Descriptive and Clinical Aspects of Paranoia/Delusional Disorder: 2. Paranoia or delusional disorder
3. Delusional disorder, somatic subtype
4. Delusional disorder, jealousy subtype
5. Delusional disorder, erotomanic subtype
6. Delusional disorder, persecutory/litigious and grandiose subtypes
Part III. 'Paranoid Spectrum' Illnesses which should be Included in the Category of Delusional Disorder: 7. Paraphrenia and paranoid schizophrenia
8. 'Late' paraphrenia and late onset schizophrenia
9. Delusional misidentification syndrome
10. Folie à deux: an accompaniment of illnesses with delusions
Part IV. Illnesses which are Liable to be Misdiagnosed as Delusional Disorders: 11. Reactive and cycloid psychoses: the acute and transient psychotic disorders
12. Non-psychotic disorders which may simulate delusional disorders
Part V. Treatment of Delusional Disorder and Overall Conclusions: 13. The treatment of delusional disorder
14. Conclusions
Index.

Subject Areas: Psychiatry [MMH]