Dimensional Psychopathology

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Biondi, Massimo (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Pasquini, Massimo (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Picardi, Angelo (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Psychiatry.; Psychotherapy .; Neurosciences.; Psychology.; Psychotherapy.; Psychology, general.

This book presents an innovative approach to clinical assessment in psychiatry based on a number of psychopathological dimensions with a presumed underlying pathophysiology, that are related to fundamental phenomenological aspects and lie on a continuum from normality to pathology. It is described h...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword
• Preface
• The Rapid Dimensional Assessment Scale (RADAS): development and applications in research
• Dimensional assessment with RADAS in clinical practice
• The Fear/Apprehension and Somatization/Somatic Preoccupation dimensions (psychic and somatic anxiety dimensions)
• The Reality Distortion and Thought Disorganization dimensions
• Violence and compulsory treatment in the psychiatric setting
• The Sadness, Demoralization and Apathy dimensions
• The "outer dimensions" Activation, Impulsivity, Anger/Aggressiveness
• The Obsessive-compulsive dimension
• Psychopathological dimensions and the clinician's subjective experience: a quantitative analysis
• The temporality dimension. .