A handbook of elementary psychobiology and psychiatry.Part three: General psychopathology.

Abstract

This chapter focuses on general psychopathology. After describing normal personality functioning, the author addresses abnormal personality functioning and provides a general discussion of psychopathology, which includes information on reactions of intellectual inadequacy and constitutional psychopathic reactions. Psychopathologies noted are as follows: the minor psychoses (general nervousness, tension and irritable weakness states, anxiety states and anticipation disorders, hysterical reactions and motor neurons, hypochondriasis, and obsessive-compulsive-ruminative tension states); the major psychoses (disorders of affect, depressions, elations, paranoic and paranoid developments and conditions, schizophrenia, disorientative-hallucinatory states, delirium, and personality disorders resulting from structural involvements of the brain); epileptic and epileptiform disorders; and psychopathological problems in childhood. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2009 APA, all rights reserved)