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Sims' Symptoms in the Mind: An Introduction to Descriptive Psychopathology

Femi Oyebode

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SIMS' SYMPTOMS IN THE MIND has, since its first publication in 1988, become established as the leading introductory textbook on clinical psychopathology. This new edition has been fully updated to include advances in neuropsychology and cognitive neuroscience and changes can be found in the chapters on memory disturbance, disorders of time, pathology of perception, disorders of speech and language, affect and emotional disorders, and disorders of volition and execution. In some cases, novel classifications of the abnormalities under consideration have been provided together with additional pathological phenomena - including palinopsia, akinetopsia, zeitraffer phenomenon, exosomesthesia - many of which have been rediscovered or imported from neurology. The popular and distinctive features are the use of figures, tables and illustrative case examples which have been further enhanced with additional case examples from the classical literature, autobiographical narratives and fiction.

GenresPsychiatryPsychologyMedicineNonfictionScienceReference

484 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1988

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Femi Oyebode

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Femi Oyebode is a retired professor and head of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Birmingham. He has investigated the relationships between literature and psychiatry. His research has considered descriptive psychopathology and delusional misidentification syndrome. He was awarded the 2016 Royal College of Psychiatrists lifetime achievement award.

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musing

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September 14, 2020

Continuum balance from sane to pathological.
More than DSM, less than good old time descriptive pathology.

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Sharice

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October 19, 2012

This is geared more towards people that work in the area of psychiatry but I wanted to read the sections of the book around the mind and pain but as I can't just read part of the book I read the whole thing. A lot of the content was too complicated for me however.