Troublesome Disguises examines psychiatric conditions which are not necessarily uncommon, rare or exotic but are challenging for the clinician who may struggle to reach a diagnosis and to set up management strategies.
However, with familiarity, these conditions can and should be recognised. This new edition is an exercise in consciousness-raising as well as a warning to beware of diagnostic systems which, despite their many virtues, may become too influential and may perpetuate errors which are to the detriment of patients.
For the clinician struggling to understand and treat patients who fail to fit the usual diagnostic categories, Troublesome Disguises provides wise instruction in the virtue of entertaining doubts, as well as practical advice for the assessment and management of atypical cases.
Table of Contents
Contributors vii
Preface xi
Part I: Challenging psychiatric conditions
1 Shared pathologies 3
German E. Berrios and Ivana S. Marková
2 Paraphrenia 16
Richard Atkinson, David Jolley, and Alistair Burns
3 Brief reactive psychoses 27
Jüergen Zielasek and Wolfgang Gaebel
4 Cycloid psychoses 44
Andrea Schmitt, Berend Malchow, Peter Falkai, and Alkomiet Hasan
5 Borderline personality disorder 57
John M. Oldham
6 Recurrent self-harm 67
Rohan Borschmann and Paul Moran
7 Finding the truth in the lies: A practical guide to the assessment of malingering 85
Holly Tabernik and Michael J. Vitacco
8 Recurrent brief depression: “This too shall pass”? 100
David S. Baldwin and Julia M. Sinclair
9 Conversion disorders 114
Santosh K. Chaturvedi and Soumya Parameshwaran
10 ADHD controversies: more or less diagnosis? 129
Florence Levy
11 Post-traumatic stress disorder: Biological dysfunction or social construction? 140
Richard A. Bryant
12 Bipolar disorder: A troubled diagnosis 153
Gin S. Malhi and Michael Berk
Part II: Rare psychotic disorders
13 Misidentification delusions 169
Michael H. Connors, Robyn Langdon, and Max Coltheart
14 Delirium 186
Sean P. Heffernan, Esther Oh, Constantine Lyketsos, and Karin Neufeld
15 Paraphilias and culture 199
Oyedeji Ayonrinde and Dinesh Bhugra
16 Pseudodementia: History, mystery and positivity 218
Alistair Burns and David Jolley
17 Culture-bound syndromes 231
Oyedeji Ayonrinde and Dinesh Bhugra
18 Delusional infestations 252
Julio Torales
19 Baffling clinical encounters: Navigating a pain and psychiatric quichua syndrome 262
Sioui Maldonado-Bouchard, Lise Bouchard, and Mario Incayawar
Index 273
