Psychopathology of Rare and Unusual Syndromes

Femi Oyebode is a Consultant Psychiatrist at the National Centre for Mental Health Birmingham and Professor of Psychiatry, University of Birmingham, UK. He was awarded the Royal College of Psychiatrists' Lifetime Achievement Award in 2016 and the Honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 2019, the highest and most prestigious award of the College. An experienced author and published poet, he has published books that include Madness at the Theatre (Cambridge University Press, 2012) and Mindreadings: Literature and Psychiatry (RCPsych Publications, 2009), as well as six volumes of poetry.

This text is an authoritative account of the rarest and most unusual psychiatric syndromes. Bridging medicine and the humanities, it includes the history and descriptions of such conditions, clinical case histories, and discussions of the causes and underlying explanatory mechanisms. It is a valuable resource for psychiatrists and researchers.

Section 1. Abnormalities of Belief and Judgment: 1. Delusional misidentification syndromes; 2. Othello syndrome; 3. Folie à deux; 4. Couvade syndrome; Section 2. Abnormalities of Experience of Love: 5. Erotomania (De Clérambault syndrome); Section 3. Abnormalities of Perception: 6. Charles Bonnet syndrome; 7. Musical hallucinosis; 8. Ekbom syndrome; 9. Vulvodynia and penoscrotodynia; 10. Olfactory reference syndrome; 11. Multimodal perceptual syndrome (Synaethesia); Section 4. Abnormalities of the Self: 12. Depersonalization; 13. Autoscopy and related syndromes; 14. Dissociation: possession states and dissociative identity disorder; Section 5. Abnormalities of Experience of the Body: 15. Body integrity identity disorder; 16. Cotard syndrome; Section 6. Abnormalities of Memory Function: 17. Confabulation; 18. Ganser state; Section 7. Abnormalities of Behaviour: 19. Diogenes syndrome.