Epidemiology and Causes of Suicide
Epidemiology and Causes of Suicide Jouko K. Lonnqvist Definition of suicide and the reliability of suicide statistics Suicidal behaviour or suicidality can be conceptualized as a continuum ranging from suicidal…
Parasomnias
Parasomnias Carlos H. Schenck Mark W. Mahowald In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless, wild-beast nature which peers out in sleep. -Plato, The Republic Relevance…
Excessive Sleepiness
Excessive Sleepiness Michel Billiard Introduction Excessive sleepiness is not an homogeneous concept. It can manifest itself as bouts of sleepiness, irresistible and refreshing sleep episodes, abnormal lengthening of night sleep…
Basic Aspects of Sleep-Wake Disorders
Basic Aspects of Sleep-Wake Disorders Gregory Stores Introduction A sound working knowledge of the diagnosis, significance, and treatment of sleep disorders is essential in all branches of clinical psychiatry. Unfortunately,…
Special Psychiatric Problems Relating to Gambling
Special Psychiatric Problems Relating to Gambling Emanuel Moran Introduction Gambling is an activity with the following elements: A contract between two or more people, which is based on a forecast…
Impulse Control Disorders
Impulse Control Disorders Susan L. McElroy Paul E. Keck Jr. This chapter first defines impulse control disorders, and then summarizes available research on the clinical features, epidemiology, psychiatric comorbidity, family…
Management of Personality Disorder
Management of Personality Disorder Giles Newton-Howes Kate Davidson Introduction The treatment of personality disorders is a complex but rapidly evolving subject. It is to some extent described elsewhere in Chapters…
Psychotherapy for Personality Disorder
Psychotherapy for Personality Disorder Anthony W. Bateman Peter Fonagy Introduction Psychotherapy has historically been the mainstay of treatment for personality disorder (PD). It remains so. Psychoanalysis was probably the earliest…
Neuropsychological Templates for Abnormal Personalities: From Genes to Biodevelopmental Pathways
Neuropsychological Templates for Abnormal Personalities: From Genes to Biodevelopmental Pathways Adolf Tobeña The scaffolding of personality Research on human personality has converged upon a ‘consensual pathway’ indicating that a small…
