Troublesome disguises managing challenging disorders in psychiatry edited by Dinesh Bhugra and Gin S Malhi

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I Challenging Psychiatric Conditions, Chapter 1 Shared pathologies German E Berrios and Ivana S Markova 2 Paraphrenia Richard Atkinson and Alistair Burns 3 Brief reactive psychoses Wolfgang Gaebel and Juergen Zielasek 4 Cycloid psychoses Andrea Schmitt, Berend Malchow, Peter Falkai and Alkomiet 5 Borderline Personality Disorder John M Oldham 6 Recurrent self-harm Rohan Borschmann and Paul Moran 7 Finding the truth in the lies: A practical guide to the assessment of malingering Holly Tabernik and Michael J Vitacco 8 Recurrent brief depression: this too shall pass ? Julia Sinclair and David Baldwin 9 Conversion disorders S K Chaturvedi and Soumya Parameshwaran 10 ADHD controversies: More or less diagnosis? Florence Levy II Rare Psychotic Disorders 11 Post-traumatic Stress Disorder: Biological dysfunction or social construction? Richard Bryant 12 Bipolar Disorder: A troubled diagnosis Gin Malhi and Michael Berk Part II Rare psychotic disorders; Chapter 13 Misidentification delusions Michael Connors, Robyn Langdon and Max Coltheart 14 Delirium Sean Heffernan, Karin Neufeld, Esther Oh and Kostas Lyketsos 15 Paraphilias and culture Dinesh Bhugra and Deji Ayonrinde 16 Pseudodementia: history, mystery and positivity Alistair Burns and David Jolley 17 Culture Bound Syndromes Dinesh Bhugra and Deji Ayonrinde 18 Delusional infestations Julio Torales 19 Baffling clinical encounters: Navigating a pain and psychiatric Quichua Syndrome Sioui Maldonado-Bouchard, Lise Bouchard and Mario Incayawar

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.