Mental Illness Defined

Continuums, Regulation, and Defense

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

Av Brad Bowins

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Understanding the true nature of mental illness is essential for interpreting disparate research results, establishing accurate diagnostic profiles, setting robust research agendas, and optimizing therapeutic interventions. Psychopathology currently lacks a unifying framework. Mental Illness Defined: Continuums, Regulation, and Defense provides such a framework by filling the knowledge gap. Continuums, as opposed to numerous discrete entities, characterize mental illness. Impaired regulation fosters extreme expressions of mental illness continuums, an occurrence that can be compensated for by "cognitive regulatory control therapies." Defenses tend to moderate behavior, although excessive levels foster dysfunction, as with personality disorders. The model presented aligns with neuroscience and other relevant data, thereby placing psychopathology on a more scientific foundation to advance the aims of both researchers and treatment providers.

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Utgivningsdatum2016-11-09
Mått152 x 229 x 18 mm
Vikt476 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor244
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781138200593

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A new approach to understanding mental disorders that contains the knowledge of psychoanalysis that has been ignored by cognitive theories. A way of looking at trauma and dissociation that will be helpful in treating all to common PTSD. Interesting ways of viewing autistic spectrum disorder. I really think this book will make a difference to clinicians who try to help their patients overcome the issues of modern day life.—Dr. Barbara Klein, private practice, Los Angeles, CA.This book takes on a mighty and worthy task, the distinction in mental illness classification between the dimensional or continuum and the categorical. It is an old debate, now with renewed vigor since DSM-IV and DSM-5… Yet this book, in giving an example of the dimensional applied to psychiatric diagnosis stirs the discussion at just the right time. We need to have this discussion if we are ever to take the next step to a clinically sophisticated and relevant diagnostic system. In applying the continuum concept to illnesses we all know so well, he allows us the ability to think about the topic. . To whom will the book appeal? Anyone who works with patients. We all struggle to fit our diagnoses into the DSM Procrustean bed.—Professor Eric Marcus, Columbia University, Center for Psychoanalysis, Research.