Delusions (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781107075443)

Delusions, in their many different manifestations, are central to the concepts of madness and psychosis. Yet what causes them remains in many ways a complete mystery. McKenna's Delusions is the first comprehensive attempt to tackle one of the most arresting phenomena in psychiatry: an in-depth and critical review of what delusions are, the forms they can take and how they might be explained from both psychological and biological perspectives. Delusions covers key topics such as the clinical features of delusions, the disorders they are seen in, other oddities that resemble them in both health and disease, and the different approaches that have been taken to try to understand them. It is an essential book for psychiatrists and psychologists who work with delusional patients, as well as being of interest to neuroscientists engaged in research into major psychiatric disorders.

Author: Peter McKenna
ISBN-10: 1107075440
ISBN-13: 9781107075443
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 07/25/2017
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.89lbs
Size: 9.71h x 6.45w x 0.63d