Schizophrenic speech: making sense of bathroots and ponds that fall in doorways

This book reviews our knowledge of the incoherent speech which can present as a symptom of schizophrenia. This is one of the most researched symptoms in the disorder. The content covers clinical presentation, differential diagnosis and the theories proposed to account for the symptom in these '...

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Hauptverfasser: MacKenna, Peter J. (VerfasserIn), Oh, Tomasina M. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge [u.a.] Cambridge Univ. Press 2005
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Zusammenfassung:This book reviews our knowledge of the incoherent speech which can present as a symptom of schizophrenia. This is one of the most researched symptoms in the disorder. The content covers clinical presentation, differential diagnosis and the theories proposed to account for the symptom in these 'thought disordered' patients, ranging from the psychoanalytic to there being a form of aphasia involved. The book is unique in its ability to apply linguistic and neuropsychological approaches to the understanding of this condition.
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p.[186]-206) and index
Beschreibung:X, 210 S. Ill., graph. Darst. 26 cm
ISBN:0521810752