Method In Madness: Case Studies In Cognitive Neuropsychiatry - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0863774423 ISBN 13: 9780863774423

Casa editrice: Psychology Press, 1996

Riassunto

In clinical neuropsychiatry, case studies provide invaluable demonstrations of the range and types of unusual psychological states that can occur after brain damage. In the pursuit of objectivity and scientific respectability, however, many academic reports of neuropsychiatric disorders appear cold, contrived and impersonal. The essence and character of the patient's experience and behaviour is easily obscured or even lost - a fact that cannot help researchers, therapists and other practitioners to relate their conceptual knowledge to the flesh-and-blood people they meet in their professional lives. In practice, much of the actual discourse of such patients has been ignored as unworthy of scientific interest. This book describes real patients in a clear and jargon-free way. These cases should serve to reduce the discrepancy between the formal representations of psychiatric illness in the mainstream literature and the reality of people struggling to make sense of their own predicament in everyday life.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Peter W. Halligan, John C. Marshall

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Psychology Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0863774423
• ISBN 13: 9780863774423
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 320
• Redattore: Halligan Peter W., Marshall John C.
• Contatto del produttore: Taylor and Francis, GPSR Taylor and Francis; gpsr@taylorandfrancis.com; ; Taylor & Francis Verlag GmbH, Kaufingerstraße 24; München; 80331; Germania