Troublesome Disguises: Managing Challenging Disorders in Psychiatry

Increasingly psychiatrists deal with complex diagnoses that necessitate sophisticated management. This completely revised second edition of Troublesome Disguises has been rewritten anew by a team of internationally recognized experts under the joint editorship of Professors Bhugra and Malhi. Each chapter of the book carefully examines common psychiatric conditions that pose a diagnostic dilemma and can be difficult to manage. The authors provide an up to date overview of these challenging psychiatric disorders with expert guidance presented in an engaging and easy to assimilate style. Along with diagnosis important areas of assessment, aetiology and treatment are detailed so that an awareness of these conditions and their management improves recognition and facilitates appropriate intervention leading to better outcomes. For the clinician struggling to understand and treat patients who fail to fit the usual diagnostic categories, Troublesome Disguises provides invaluable instructions in the virtue of entertaining doubts, as well as practical advice for the assessment and management of atypical cases.

Introduction: Setting the Scene Dinesh Bhugra and Gin Malhi I Challenging Psychiatric Conditions 1 Shared pathologies German E Berrios and Ivana S Marková 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 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

Dinesh Bhugra, Professor of Mental Health and Cultural Diversity, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, UK Gin S. Malhi, Professor of Psychiatry, Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney and Head of Department, Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, Australia