Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of case descriptions
- Preface
- Part I Delusional disorders and delusions: introductory aspects
- Part II Descriptive and clinical aspects of paranoia/delusional disorder
- Part III ‘Paranoid spectrum’ illnesses which should be included in the category of delusional disorder
- Part IV Illnesses which are liable to be misdiagnosed as delusional disorders
- Part V Treatment of delusional disorder and overall conclusions
- Index
Part I - Delusional disorders and delusions: introductory aspects
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 November 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of case descriptions
- Preface
- Part I Delusional disorders and delusions: introductory aspects
- Part II Descriptive and clinical aspects of paranoia/delusional disorder
- Part III ‘Paranoid spectrum’ illnesses which should be included in the category of delusional disorder
- Part IV Illnesses which are liable to be misdiagnosed as delusional disorders
- Part V Treatment of delusional disorder and overall conclusions
- Index
Summary
He who would distinguish the true from the false must have an adequate idea of what is true and false.
Benedict Spinoza (1632–1677)Delusional disorder, under its former soubriquet of paranoia, is a venerable diagnosis. Unfortunately both the concept and the diagnosis fell into abeyance in the early part of the twentieth century and have only come back into prominence since 1987, when paranoia – renamed delusional disorder – was revived in DSMIIIR (the revised third edition of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders). It has subsequently been confirmed in the tenth revision of the World Health Association's International Statistical Classification of Diseases (ICD10, 1992–93) and in DSMIV (1994) and, as will unfold in the course of this book, a considerable world-wide and cross-disciplinary literature on the subject has grown up in recent years.
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- Delusional DisorderParanoia and Related Illnesses, pp. 1 - 2Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1999