Handbook of Psychiatry: Volume 4, The Neuroses and Personality Disorders

This 1986 textbook examines neuroses and personality disorders.

Gerald F. M. Russell (Edited by), Lionel Hersov (Edited by)

9780521285377, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 25 May 1984

520 pages
23.5 x 19.1 x 2.7 cm, 0.89 kg

This 1986 volume is the fourth in the five-volume Handbook of Psychiatry. It is a textbook on neuroses and personality disorders. These disorders are among the commonest forms of psychiatric illnesses, including those found in children and adolescents, and every practising doctor will need to advise and treat patients with symptoms which will elicit one or both of these diagnostic labels. The book was written primarily for practising psychiatrists, physicians and general practitioners, and clinical detail and practical treatment are described. Equal importance is attached to assessment and to treatment of patients with neurotic and behavioural disorders, and much attention is devoted to general aspects of treatment, including the role of the multidisciplinary therapeutic team and the value of an eclectic approach. It will continue to be of historical interest to specialists today.

List of contributors
Foreword
Preface
Part I. Concepts, Assessments, and Treatments
Section 1. Concepts and Classifications. Aetiology: 1. Classification
2. Aetiological factors more relevant for adult disorders
3. Aetiological Factors of Special Relevance to childhood disorders
Section 2. Methods of Interview and Assessment: 4. The assessment of neurotic and personality disorders in adults
5. Clinical assessment of the emotionally disturbed child and his family
6. Clinical assessment of the mentally handicapped child and his family
7. Psychological testing
Section 3. Principles of Treatment in the Neuroses and Personality Disorders: 8. Methods of treatment
9. Treatment settings
10. The therapeutic team
11. Forensic aspects
Part II. Disorders Specific to Childhood
Section 4. Disorders Specific to Childhood: 12. The pre-school child
13. The school child
Part III. Neurotic States, Sexual Disorders, and Drug Dependence
Section 5. Minor Affective Disorders: 14. Depressive syndromes
15. Anxiety neurosis
Section 6. Hysteria: 16. Childhood signs of hysterical personality disorder and of hysterical conversion syndromes: hysterical conversion symptoms in childhood
17. Hysteria
18. The hysterical (histrionic) personality
19. The impact of parents with hysterical personalities on their children
Section 7. Obsessional Disorders: 20. Childhood origins of obsessional disorders, stereotyped behaviour, tics and Tourette's syndrome, and stuttering
21. Obsessional illness and personality
22. The impact of obsessional parents on their children
Section 8. Patients Presenting with Bodily Complaints and Disturbances: 23. Psychosomatic medicine and liaison psychiatry
24. Chronic pain: the role of the psychiatrist
25. Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa
26. Obesity
27. Premenstrual syndrome
28. Endocrine disorders
29. Skin disorders and dermatitis artefact
30. Hypochondriasis
31. Sick role and illness behaviour in children
Section 9. Sexual Disturbances and Deviation: 32. Sexual problems
33. Homosexuality
34. Transvestism, transsexualism, and exhibitionism
35. Incest (child referred to psychiatrist)
Section 10. Alcoholism, Drug Dependance, Gambling: 36. Childhood antecedents of alcoholism and drug dependence
37. Alcoholism
38. The impact of alcoholic parents of their children
39. Gambling
Part IV. Personality Disorders
Section 11. Sociopathic Personality: 40. The childhood origins of delinquency and antisocial behaviour
41. Sociopathic (psychopathic) personality in the adult
42. The impact of sociopathic and inadequate parents on their children (including child abuse)
Section 12. The 'Inadequate Personality': 43. The 'inadequate personality'
44. Child sexual molestation
References
Cross-references to other volumes in the series
Author index
Subject index.

Subject Areas: Psychiatry [MMH]