Method In Madness - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0863774423 ISBN 13 : 9780863774423

Editeur : Psychology Press, 1996

Synopsis

In clinical neuropsychiatry, case studies provide invaluable demonstrations of the range and types of unusual psychological states that can occur after brain damage. In the pursuit of objectivity and scientific respectability, however, many academic reports of neuropsychiatric disorders appear cold, contrived and impersonal. The essence and character of the patient's experience and behaviour is easily obscured or even lost - a fact that cannot help researchers, therapists and other practitioners to relate their conceptual knowledge to the flesh-and-blood people they meet in their professional lives. In practice, much of the actual discourse of such patients has been ignored as unworthy of scientific interest. This book describes real patients in a clear and jargon-free way. These cases should serve to reduce the discrepancy between the formal representations of psychiatric illness in the mainstream literature and the reality of people struggling to make sense of their own predicament in everyday life.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Peter W. Halligan, John C. Marshall

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Psychology Press
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0863774423
• ISBN 13: 9780863774423
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Éditeur: Halligan Peter W., Marshall John C.
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible