In order to help people with a mental illness it is important to be able to understand and measure the severity of distressing and disabling experiences that can affect behavior. SCAN is a form of interview, found acceptable to patients, which provides a detailed and accurate picture of the "mental state." When analyzed by computer, SCAN provides diagnoses that are comparable wherever the system is used. The ninth edition of the Present State Examination (PSE-9) was published in 1974 and served to link the two main approaches to the description and classification of psychological problems....
In order to help people with a mental illness it is important to be able to understand and measure the severity of distressing and disabling experienc...
In order to help people with a mental illness it is important to be able to understand and measure the severity of distressing and disabling experiences that can affect behavior. SCAN is a form of interview, found acceptable to patients, which provides a detailed and accurate picture of the "mental state." When analyzed by computer, SCAN provides diagnoses that are comparable wherever the system is used. The ninth edition of the Present State Examination (PSE-9) was published in 1974 and served to link the two main approaches to the description and classification of psychological problems....
In order to help people with a mental illness it is important to be able to understand and measure the severity of distressing and disabling experienc...
This book studies the relationship between institutionalism and schizophrenia in the lives of mental patients. The authors observed schizophrenic patients in three different mental hospitals over a period of eight years. Their conclusions are important for the better management of institutions and for the future of extra-mural mental health services. The lives of long-term schizophrenic patients are strictly limited by their institutionalised environments, which often produce negative effects. For example, patients are especially vulnerable to social understimulation, reacing with apathy and...
This book studies the relationship between institutionalism and schizophrenia in the lives of mental patients. The authors observed schizophrenic pati...
The exact definition of "madness" remains elusive. There are difficulties in distinguishing the criminal from the mad or, more euphemistically, the mentally ill. Controversy has centered on the frightening potential possessed by the state to deprive of his rights the individual officially classified as mad.
In this book, Wing, a psychiatrist of international repute, argues for a limited medical definition of mental illness, although he explains how even a doctor's professional judgment may often be influenced by social pressures. He compares concepts of madness prevalent in different...
The exact definition of "madness" remains elusive. There are difficulties in distinguishing the criminal from the mad or, more euphemistically, the...
Wer die Sozialpsychiatrie als ein eigensUindiges und losgelostes Fach ansieht, tragt dazu bei, daB der verbleibende Bereich der Psychiatrie als unsozial bezeichnet wird. Diese einseitige Polari sierung, die dem psychisch Kranken eher schadet als niitzt, gehort hoffentlich zu den verganglichen Modeerscheinungen unserer Zeit. Die Sozialpsychiatrie ist nach wie vor fester Bestandteil des Kembereichs der Psychiatrie, lediglich die soziale Perspektive wird etwas starker berucksichtigt als die iibrigen psychiatrischen Teilgebiete. Wiirden wir die somato-und psychotherapeutischen Erklarungs-und...
Wer die Sozialpsychiatrie als ein eigensUindiges und losgelostes Fach ansieht, tragt dazu bei, daB der verbleibende Bereich der Psychiatrie als unsozi...
This book was originally published in 1983. Schizophrenic, paranoid, manic, depressive and autistic illnesses are amongst the most severe and disabling that affect mankind. Uncertainty still surrounds their origins but the term 'functional psychoses' which suggests an absence of knowledge about causation, had become out of date, as the title of this volume suggests. It gives an insightful and comprehensive account of the pathology, biochemistry, aetiology, diagnoses, epidemiology, treatment and prognosis of these conditions. The authors were internationally acknowledged experts in their...
This book was originally published in 1983. Schizophrenic, paranoid, manic, depressive and autistic illnesses are amongst the most severe and disablin...
