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Schizophrenic Speech Making Sense of Bathroots and Ponds That Fall in Doorways

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ISBN-10: 0521009057

ISBN-13: 9780521009058

Edition: N/A

Authors: Peter J. McKenna, Tomasina M. Oh

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This book reviews our knowledge of the incoherent speech which can present as a symptom of schizophrenia. This is one of the most researched symptoms in the disorder. The content covers clinical presentation, differential diagnosis and the theories proposed to account for the symptom in these thought disordered patients, ranging from the psychoanalytic to there being a form of aphasia involved. The book is unique in its ability to apply linguistic and neuropsychological approaches to the understanding of this condition, and is the first book to cover comprehensively the range of clinical studies that followed the introduction of Andreasens rating scale for what was then called thought,…    
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Book details

List price: $68.99
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 6/19/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.47" tall
Weight: 0.814
Language: English

Peter McKenna is a psychiatrist with a special interest in schizophrenia. He has written one previous book on the subject and has carried out research, principally on the neuropsychology of the disorder.

Tomasina Oh strayed into the area of schizophrenic thought disorder during her PhD. A linguist by training, she is interested in language impairment, as well as the relationship between language and cognition.

Describing schizophrenic speech
Thought disorder as a syndrome in schizophrenia
The differential diagnosis of thought disorder
Thought disorder as a form of dysphasia
Thought disorder and communicative competence
Thought disorder as a dysexecutive phenomenon
The dyssemantic hypothesis of thought disorder
Some conclusions and a few speculations