Sanity insanity : [myths and realities of mental illness]
Digitised Book 216.73.216.10 (0)
1987
Information About
This book addresses issues of the mental illness. It aims to create an awareness of a health problem of it.
Additional Details
- Title
- Sanity insanity : [myths and realities of mental illness]
- Creators
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- Kua, Ee Heok
- Subject
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- Brief psychotherapy
- Mental health
- Mental illness
- Psychology, Pathological
- Insanity (Law)
- Psychology--Popular works
- Publisher
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- Times Books International, 1987
- National Library Board Singapore, 1987
- Contributors
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- Ang, Peng Chye
- Digital Description
- application/pdf, ill.
- Table of Contents
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- General introduction. 1. What is mental illness. 2 Causes of mental illness -- Types of mental illness. 3. Organic mental illness. 4. Schizophrenia. 5. Depressive illness and mania. 6. Neurosis. 7. Anorexia nervosa. 8. Stress and psychosomatic illness. 9. Old age and mental illness. 10. Mental disorders in children. 11. Mental retardation. 12. Culture-related mental illness. 13. Mental illness after childbirth. 14. Drug abuse. 15. Alcohol abuse -- Other related disorders. 16. Suicide and attempted suicide. 17. Crime and mental illness. 18. Sexual disorders. 19. Sleep and sleep disorders. 20. Personality disorders. 21. The Burnout Syndrome -- Treatment. 22. Treatment of mental illness. 23. Mental health services in Singapore -- Appendix -- Glossary -- Index.
- Copyright
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- All Rights Reserved. National Library Board Singapore 2009.