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Sims' Symptoms in the Mind: Textbook of Descriptive Psychopathology

Core foundational text for students of psychiatry

Femi Oyebode (Author)

9780702085253, Elsevier Health Sciences

Paperback, published 22 August 2022

378 pages
23.5 x 19 x 2.4 cm, 0.72 kg

Psychopathology – the study of abnormal mental states – is a foundational discipline of psychiatry that is formidable to master. Since 1988, Sims’ Symptoms in the Mind has been the leading introductory textbook in this area and provides the conceptual backbone needed by every psychiatrist in training. It defines and explains the main symptoms and syndromes of mental illness encountered in clinical practice.

Now in its seventh edition, the text has been fully revised and updated by renowned psychiatry professor Femi Oyebode. It provides a masterful introduction to this difficult area that will challenge the reader intellectually, while at the same time supporting his or her learning.

With a combination of accessible text and audiovisual materials in the online ebook, this is the standard postgraduate text for psychiatric trainees as well as a valued reference for academics, clinical psychiatrists and psychologists, allied health professionals, and researchers.

  • Complete and practical overview of clinical psychopathology

  • New chapter on the emerging area of abnormalities of aesthetic sense

  • Expanded information on musical hallucinations, erotomania, abnormalities of the form of thinking, and the intriguing nature of gesture and its disturbance

  • Online videos and podcasts covering interviewing techniques and tips

  • Multiple choice questions and extended answers, offering different ways to learn

  • Fully updated with new knowledge, concepts and theoretical and explanatory models

Section I CONCEPTS AND METHOD

  1. Fundamental Concepts of Descriptive Psychopathology

  2. Eliciting the Symptoms of Mental Illness

    3. Section II CONSCIOUSNESS AND COGNITION

  3. Consciousness and Disturbed Consciousness

  4. Attention, Concentration, Orientation and Sleep

  5. Disturbance of Memory

    6. Section III AWARENESS OF REALITY: TIME, PERCEPTION AND JUDGEMENT

  6. Disorder of Time

  7. NEW CHAPTER: Abnormalities of aesthetic sense

  8. Pathology of Perception

  9. Delusions and Other Erroneous Ideas

  10. Disorder of the Thinking Process

  11. Disorder of Speech and Language

  12. Insight

    13. Section IV SELF AND BODY

  13. The Disordered Self

  14. Depersonalization

  15. Disorder of the Awareness of the Body

  16. The Psychopathology of Pain

    17. Section V EMOTIONS AND ACTION

  17. Affect and Emotional Disorders

  18. Anxiety, Panic, Irritability, Phobia and Obsession

  19. Disorders of Volition and Execution

    20. Section VI VARIATIONS OF HUMAN NATURE

  20. The Expression of Disordered Personality

    21. Section VII DIAGNOSIS

  21. Psychopathology and Diagnosis

Assessment

Self-Assessment 1

Self-Assessment 2

Self-Assessment 1: Answers

Self-Assessment 2: Answers

Subject Areas: Psychiatry [MMH]
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