ABSTRACT
Points of View</EM> is desingned to provide students at various levels of experience and training with illustrative examples of individuals with different forms of psychopathology. The work is designed primarily for students who are studying descriptive psychopathology, including psychiatric residents, medical students on psychiatry rotations graduate students in psychology, or students in various related mental health fields, including psychiatric nursing, social work, and school counseling. The stories are written to illustrate the key elements of psychopathology for these various disorders.<br> Each is written from two perspectives: the perspective of the individual who has the disorder, and the perspective of someone else in their environment (e.g. a family member, a friend, a doctor). The thoughts of these individuals, as opposed to their speech, are given in parentheses. This design was chosen to attempt to illustrate not only how people with these disorders think and feel themselves but also how they appear to other people around them. The emphasis, therefore, is on the difficulties, often the suffering, experienced by people with various mental illnesses, and also on the adverse impact these illnesses have on others, which is often substantial.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |15 pages
Delirium, Dementia, Amnestic, and Other Cognitive Disorders
chapter |7 pages
Delirium
chapter |6 pages
Dementia of the Alzheimer's Type
part |16 pages
Substance Related Disorders
chapter |7 pages
Alcohol Dependence
chapter |7 pages
Amphetamine Dependence
part |17 pages
Schizophrenia and other Psychotic Disorders
chapter |8 pages
Schizophrenia
chapter |7 pages
Delusional Disorder
part |24 pages
Mood Disorders
chapter |10 pages
Depression
chapter |12 pages
Mania
part |47 pages
Anxiety Disorders
chapter |6 pages
Specific Phobia
chapter |8 pages
Panic Disorder
chapter |9 pages
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
chapter |7 pages
Social Phobia
chapter |8 pages
Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
chapter |7 pages
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
part |15 pages
Somatoform Disorders
chapter |8 pages
Somatization Disorder
chapter |5 pages
Body Dysmorphic Disorder
part |8 pages
Factitious Disorders
chapter |6 pages
Factitious Disorder
part |9 pages
Dissociative Disorders
chapter |7 pages
Dissociative Identity Disorder
part |21 pages
Eating Disorders
chapter |9 pages
Anorexia Nervosa
chapter |10 pages
Bulimia Nervosa
part |15 pages
Impulse-control Disorders Not Otherwise Classified
chapter |7 pages
Pathological Gambling
chapter |6 pages
Trichotillomania
part |18 pages
Personality Disorders