Sims' Symptoms in the Mind: Textbook of Descriptive Psychopathology

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.

Key Features

• 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 Section II CONSCIOUSNESS AND COGNITION
3. Consciousness and Disturbed Consciousness
4. Attention, Concentration, Orientation and Sleep
5. Disturbance of Memory 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 Section IV SELF AND BODY
13. The Disordered Self
14. Depersonalization
15. Disorder of the Awareness of the Body
16. The Psychopathology of Pain Section V EMOTIONS AND ACTION
17. Affect and Emotional Disorders
18. Anxiety, Panic, Irritability, Phobia and Obsession
19. Disorders of Volition and Execution Section VI VARIATIONS OF HUMAN NATURE
20. The Expression of Disordered Personality Section VII DIAGNOSIS
21. Psychopathology and Diagnosis

Assessment
Self-Assessment 1
Self-Assessment 2
Self-Assessment 1: Answers
Self-Assessment 2: Answers

Author Information

By Femi Oyebode, MBBS, MD, PhD, FRCPsych, Professor of Psychiatry and Consultant Psychiatrist, University of Birmingham, National Centre for Mental Health, Birmingham, UK.

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