Mental illness defined : continuums, regulation, and defense / / Brad Bowins

• Autore: Bowins Brad
• Pubblicazione: New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2016
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (245 pages)
• Disciplina: 616.89
• Soggetto topico: Mental illness; Defense mechanisms (Psychology)
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Introduction -- 2. Depression -- 3. Anxiety -- 4. Hypomania-mania -- 5. Psychosis -- 6. Negative symptoms -- 7. Dissociation -- 8. Eating disorders -- 9. Reinforcement-based disorders -- 10. Personality disorders -- 11. Diagnostic considerations -- 12. Conclusion.
• Sommario/riassunto: Understanding the true nature of mental illness is essential for interpreting disparate research results, establishing accurate diagnostic profiles, setting robust research agendas, and optimizing therapeutic interventions. Psychopathology currently lacks a unifying framework. Mental Illness Defined: Continuums, Regulation, and Defense provides such a framework by filling the knowledge gap. Continuums, as opposed to numerous discrete entities, characterize mental illness. Impaired regulation fosters extreme expressions of mental illness continuums, an occurrence that can be compensated for by "cognitive regulatory control therapies." Defenses tend to moderate behavior, although excessive levels foster dysfunction, as with personality disorders. The model presented aligns with neuroscience and other relevant data, thereby placing psychopathology on a more scientific foundation to advance the aims of both researchers and treatment providers.
• Titolo autorizzato: Mental illness defined
• ISBN: 1-315-51413-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910150344603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II