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Communicational factors for the Mental Disorders
Greetings Fellow List Members
The communicational factors underlying mental illness have finally been resolved in the ground-breaking new book - Communication Breakdown: Decoding the Riddle of Mental Illness, edited by John E. LaMuth. Each of the major categories of mental illness is incorporated into a unified communicational dynamic: where dysfunctional behavior patterns can accurately be determined, leading to effective resolution. This communicational approach is intended as an adjunct to currently available treatment regimens, adding a further crucial tool to the repertoire of the mental health practitioner, enhancing the potential for timely intervention. This new system helps increase awareness of dysfunctional patterns of communication, further highlighting trigger-factors that can precipitate behavioral outbreaks. Here, the 56 different classifications of mental illness breaks down into the eight forms of the personality disorders, eight forms of the neuroses, and twenty forms each for the mood disorders and schizophrenia: as partially depicted in the schematic diagram below: Narcissistic Personality >>> Obsession Neurosis Confabulatory Euphoria >>> Confab. Paraphrenia Enthusiastic Euphoria >>> Proskinetic Catatonia Non-Participatory Euphoria >>> Silly Hebephrenia Borderline Personality >>> Phobia Neurosis Suspicious Depression >>> Fantastic Paraphrenia Self-Torturing Depression >>> Negativistic Catatonia Non-Participatory Depression >>> Insipid Hebephrenia Dependent Personality >>> Compulsion Neurosis Pure Mania >>> Expansive Paraphrenia Unproductive Euphoria >>> Parakinetic Catatonia Hypochondriacal Euphoria >>> Eccentric Hebephrenia Avoidant Personality >>> Anxiety Neurosis Pure Melancholy >>> Incoherent Paraphrenia Harried Depression >>> Affected Catatonia Hypochondriacal Depression >>> Autistic Hebephrenia The extensive terminology (for the psychoses) is in large part due to a pre-existing system of nomenclature pioneered by German clinician, Karl Leonhard. The nomenclature for the personality disorders and the neuroses is alternately specified within the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV). Indeed, this advanced degree of detail proves quite a revelation for those more at home with the American model of the psychoses, where manic-depressive disease and schizophrenia are generally treated as unitary entities. This enhanced range of detail, in turn, allows the current communicational approach to ultimately be proposed. In light of the probability of being impacted by mental illness at some time during one's lifetime (whether as a caregiver or a patient), this communicational approach to the mental disorders proves an extremely timely issue, and one holding considerable promise to those thusly afflicted. Communication Breakdown: Decoding the Riddle of Mental Illness Editor-in-Chief - John E. LaMuth M.S. Fairhaven Book Publishers, Lucerne Valley, CA, USA More information posted at: www.angelfire.com/rnb/fairhaven/cbd.html Publication Date - September 2004 ISBN# 1-929649-20-7 Trade softcover (7.44 x 9.69 inches) - 276 pages Extensively illustrated. $28.95 About the Author John LaMuth has applied his Masters Degree in Counseling to the cause of Character Education, including a Private Practice in Counseling in the Southern California area. In his latest release, John seeks to share his years of experience in the mental health field with the aim of focusing attention on issues of such critical public concern. # # # |
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