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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      23 November 2009
      04 March 1999
      ISBN:
      9780511544095
      9780521581806
      9780521029803
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511544095
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.555kg, 276 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.413kg, 276 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology, Medicine, Psychiatry
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    Delusional disorder, once termed paranoia, was an important diagnosis in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and only in 1987 was it reintroduced into modern psychiatric diagnosis after being subsumed with schizophrenia. This book provides a comprehensive review of delusional disorder for psychiatrists and other clinicians. Beginning with the emergence of the concept of delusional disorder, the book goes on to detail its manifold presentations, differential diagnosis and treatment. Many instructive case histories are provided, illustrating manifestations of the various subtypes of delusional disorder, and related conditions in the paranoid spectrum. This is the most wide-ranging and authoritative text on the subject to have appeared for many years, and the first to suggest, based on the author's extensive experience, that the category of delusional disorder should contain not one but several conditions. It also emphasizes that, contrary to traditional belief, delusional disorder is a treatable illness.

    Reviews

    ‘All in all this is a highly readable book, inspiring and almost seducing one to reconsider the diagnostic use of Delusional Disorder, and inviting future research into the nature of delusions and the psychopathology and epidemiology of paranoid disorders. The book should be obligatory for psychiatric libraries, particularly in DSM-using countries.’

    Aksel Bertelsen

    ‘This book is not only an outstanding review of the literature by a leading expert in the field of delusional disorders, it also draws from the unique, extensive clinical experience of the author … This is a unique book which deals with clinical realities which all clinicians are likely to encounter and have to deal with. It is strongly recommended.’

    Source: Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics

    ‘… a valuable account of an area of psychiatry in which the patients are in steady supply. It is clearly and unusually well written and makes an easy, even enjoyable read, something that cannot be said for most psychiatric textbooks.’

    Source: British Journal of Psychiatry

    ‘… an interesting book on an elusive disorder.’

    Royce Lee - MD

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