Method In Madness (Paperback)

Paperback. In clinical neuropsychiatry, case studies provide invaluable demonstrations of the range and types of unusual psychological states that can occur after brain damage. In the pursuit of objectivity and scientific respectability, however, many academic reports of neuropsychiatric disorders appear cold, contrived and impersonal. The essence and character of the patient's experience and behaviour is easily obscured or even lost - a fact that cannot help researchers, therapists and other practitioners to relate their conceptual knowledge to the flesh-and-blood people they meet in their professional lives. In practice, much of the actual discourse of such patients has been ignored as unworthy of scientific interest. This book describes real patients in a clear and jargon-free way. These cases should serve to reduce the discrepancy between the formal representations of psychiatric illness in the mainstream literature and the reality of people struggling to make sense of their own predicament in everyday life. This is a collection of case studies in cognitive neuropsychiatry. In clinical neuropsychology, case studies have shown themselves to be useful ways of demonstrating the range and types of unusual psychological changes of mind that occur after brain damage. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…