Mental Illness Defined

Brad Bowins, MD, directs the Centre for Theoretical Research in Psychiatry & Clinical Psychology, which he founded to advance theoretical research, provide guidelines, and support research on mental illness.

• Author Biography  Acknowledgement  1. Introduction  2. Depression  3.Anxiety 4. Hypomania-Mania 5. Psychosis  6. Negative Symptoms  7. Dissociation  8. Eating Disorders  9. Reinforcement-Based Disorders  10. Personality Disorders  11. Diagnostic Considerations  12. Conclusion  Index

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.