Book, Manual of Psychopathology (Cheniaux) 6/21[LS]

Psychopathology Manual reaches its sixth edition with completely revised and updated text, new graphic design and the inclusion of three new appendices, aspects that further improve its content, already renowned and respected by students and professionals in the areas of psychiatry, psychology and health mental.Practical and objective, the sixth edition maintains the proposal of synthesis and review of the concepts of descriptive psychopathology, bringing together reliable information, essential to the intended audience.Main characteristicsPrefaces by Prof. Miguel Chalub and Prof. Antonio Egidio NardiPresentation of quantitative and qualitative changes in each psychic function (with several clinical examples)Psychological introduction and study of how quantitative and qualitative changes in each psychic function are manifested in the main mental disordersStudy of the examination technique corresponding to each psychic functionDiscussion about discoveries of neurosciences and theoretical formulations of psychoanalysis related to the function studiedChapter on the main psychiatric syndromesSix appendices: the first addresses divergences between authors regarding psychopathological terms and their definitions; the second presents a model of psychic examination and psychopathological summary; the third lists all the psychopathological changes discussed in the book, classified according to psychic function; the fourth, fifth and sixth discuss, respectively, the distinction between delusional idea and delusional idea, delirium in the work Dom Casmurro, by Machado de Assis, and the concepts of impulsive behavior and compulsive behavior.