Shared pathologies / German E Berrios and Ivana S Marková -- Paraphrenia / Richard Atkinson and Alistair Burns -- Brief reactive psychoses / Wolfgang Gaebel and Juergen Zielasek -- Cycloid psychoses / Andrea Schmitt, Berend Malchow, Peter Falkai and Alkomiet Hasan -- Borderline personality disorder / John M. Oldham -- Recurrent self-harm / Rohan Borschmann and Paul Moran -- Finding the truth in the lies : a practical guide to the assessment of malingering / Holly Tabernik and Michael J. Vitacco -- Recurrent brief depression : 'this too shall pass'? / Julia Sinclair and David Baldwin -- Conversion disorders / S.K. Chaturvedi and Soumya Parameshwaran -- ADHD controversies : more or less diagnosis? / Florence Levy -- Post-traumatic stress disorder : biological dysfunction or social construction? / Richard Bryant -- Bipolar disorder : a troubled diagnosis / Gin Malhi and Michael Berk -- Misidentification delusions / Michael Connors, Robyn Langdon and Max Coltheart -- Delirium / Sean Heffernan, Karin Neufeld, Esther Oh and Kostas Lyketsos -- Paraphilias and culture / Dinesh Bhugra and Deji Ayonrinde -- Pseudodementia : history, mystery and positivity / Alistair Burns and David Jolley -- Culture bound syndromes / Dinesh Bhugra and Deji Ayonrinde -- Delusional infestations / Julio Torales -- Baffling clinical encounters : navigating a pain and psychiatric Quichua syndrome / Sioui Maldonado-Bouchard, Lise Bouchard and Mario Incayawar
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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