| Insight in Psychiatry Contributor(s): Marková, Ivana (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521825180 ISBN-13: 9780521825184 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $64.59 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2005 Annotation: Despite considerable research examining insight in patients with psychoses, non-psychotic disorders and chronic organic brain syndromes, results are inconclusive and insight remains a source of some mystification. To what extent can patients understand disorders which affect their mental function? Does insight bear a prognostic value? Is impaired insight determined by the illness or are other factors of equal importance? Ivana S. Markova examines the problems involved in studying insight in patients with mental illness in order to provide a clearer understanding of the factors that determine its clinical manifestation. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Medical | Psychiatry - General - Medical | Mental Health |
| Dewey: 616.89 |
| LCCN: 2006274682 |
| Physical Information: 0.86" H x 6.98" W x 9.94" (1.88 lbs) 344 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Despite considerable research examining insight in patients with psychoses, non-psychotic disorders and chronic organic brain syndromes, results are inconclusive and insight remains a source of some mystification. To what extent can patients understand disorders which affect their mental function? Does insight bear a prognostic value? Is impaired insight determined by the illness or are other factors of equal importance? Ivana S. Markov examines the problems involved in studying insight in patients with mental illness in order to provide a clearer understanding of the factors that determine its clinical manifestation. |
Contributor Bio(s): Markova, Ivana: - D. O. B.22 June 1963. |