An Experiential Approach to Psychopathology What is it like to Suffer from Mental Disorders? /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Stanghellini, Giovanni (Editor), Aragona, Massimiliano (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Psychiatry.; Psychology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Psychology, general.

This book introduces the reader to a clear and consistent method for in-depth exploration of subjective psychopathological experiences with the aim of helping to restore the ability within psychiatry and clinical psychology to draw qualitative distinctions between mental symptoms that are only appar...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction to the method of phenomenological psychopathology
• Delusions and Delusion-like ideas
• Hallucinations
• Catatonia
• Autism
• Bodily experiences
• Disturbances of the Self
• Perplexity
• Bizarreness
• Obsessive phenomena
• Melancholia
• Mania
• Dysphoria and anger in borderline disorders
• Depersonalization
• Gender dysphoria
• Aggressiveness
• Self-Injury
• Suicide
• Experiences related to Alcohol and Drug Abuse
• Values and Psychoses.