Hallucinations in Clinical Psychiatry: A Guide for Mental Health Professionals (BRUNNER/MAZEL CLINICAL PSYCHIATRY SERIES)

First published in 1991. The purpose of this book is to be used as a clinical guide to assist the clinician in making a comprehensive clinical evaluation of hallucinatory symptoms as they present in various conditions, psychiatric and otherwise. Except for a few chapters that deal with theoretical background on the subject, the focus of most of this book is on clinical manifestations, diagnostic issues, and treatment ap proaches with regard to hallucinatory symptoms. Content: 1. History of hallucinations -- 2. Phenomenology of hallucinations -- 3. Hallucinations, illusions, and delusions -- 4. Hallucinations, dreams, and REM sleep -- 5. Etiology and psychopathology -- 6. Hallucinations in psychiatric disorders -- 7. Hallucinations associated with alcoholism -- 8. Hallucinations in organic mental disorders -- 9. Hallucinogenic drugs and other psychoactive substances -- 10. Hallucinations induced by pharmacological agents -- 11. Hallucinations associated with neurologic disorders -- 12. Hallucinations associated with ear and eye diseases -- 13. Hallucinations in children -- 14. Hypnosis, suggestions, and dissociative states -- 15. Hallucinations in nonmorbid conditions -- 16. Hallucinations : diagnostic considerations -- 17. Treatment of hallucinations -- 18. Toward an integrative theory of hallucinations. First published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company