Schizo-Obsessive Disorder

This is the first book to address the clinical and neurobiological interface between schizophrenia and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).

Michael Poyurovsky (Author)

9781107000124, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 17 January 2013

245 pages, 11 b/w illus. 40 tables
23.6 x 16 x 2 cm, 0.52 kg

'… a welcomed addition among books dedicated to schizophrenia … nicely written so as to appeal to the specialist in schizophrenia as well as to the general psychiatrist.' Peter F. Buckley, Journal of Clinical Psychiatry

This is the first book to address the clinical and neurobiological interface between schizophrenia and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). There is growing evidence that obsessive-compulsive symptoms in schizophrenia are prevalent, persistent and characterized by a distinct pattern of familial inheritance, neurocognitive deficits and brain activation. This text provides guidelines for differential diagnosis of schizophrenic patients with obsessive-compulsive symptoms, and patients with primary OCD alongside poor insight, psychotic features or schizotypal personality. Written by a leading expert in the coexistence of obsessive-compulsive and schizophrenic phenomena, Schizo-Obsessive Disorder uses numerous case studies to present diagnostic guidelines and to describe a recommended treatment algorithm, demystifying this complex disorder and aiding its effective management. The book is essential reading for psychiatrists, neurologists and the wider range of multidisciplinary mental health practitioners.

Foreword
Preface
1. Schizophrenia and OCD: comparative characteristics
2. Obsessive-compulsive symptoms in schizophrenia: conceptual history
3. Obsessive-compulsive symptoms in schizophrenia: epidemiological and clinical aspects
4. Obsessive-compulsive symptoms in schizophrenia: psychopathological characteristics
5. Obsessive-compulsive symptoms in schizophrenia: prodrome
6. Obsessive-compulsive symptoms in schizophrenia: across life span
7. OCD-spectrum disorders in schizophrenia
8. Schizotypal OCD
9. OCD with poor insight
10. Neurobiology of schizo-obsessive disorder
11. Treatment of schizophrenia with obsessive-compulsive symptoms
12. Antipsychotic drug-induced obsessive-compulsive symptoms
13. Conclusions and future directions
Index.

Subject Areas: Psychiatry [MMH], Mental health services [MBPK], Care of the mentally ill [JKSM]