Tomasina Oh, Peter Mckenna, McKenna Peter J.

Schizophrenic Speech

Making Sense of Bathroots and Ponds That Fall in Doorways

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Produktbeschreibung

This book reviews our knowledge of the incoherent speech which can present as a symptom of schizophrenia.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 395g
• ISBN-13: 9780521009058
• ISBN-10: 0521009057
• Artikelnr.: 23604535

Autorenporträt

Peter McKenna is a psychiatrist with a special interest in schizophrenia. He has written one previous book on the subject and has carried out research, principally on the neuropsychology of the disorder.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Describing schizophrenic speech
2. Thought disorder as a syndrome in schizophrenia
3. The differential diagnosis of thought disorder
4. Thought disorder as a form of dysphasia
5. Thought disorder and communicative competence
6. Thought disorder as a dysexecutive phenomenon
7. The dyssemantic hypothesis of thought disorder
8. Some conclusions and a few speculations.