Preceded by: Sims' symptoms in the mind / Femi Oyebode. 4th ed. 2008.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Fundamental concepts of descriptive psychopathology -- Eliciting the symptoms of mental illness -- Consciousness and disturbed consciousness -- Attention, concentration, orientation, and sleep -- Disturbance of memory -- Disorder of time -- Pathology of perception -- Delusions and other erroneous ideas -- Disorder of the thinking process -- Disorder of speech and language -- Insight -- The disordered self -- Depersonalization -- Disorder of the awareness of the body -- The psychopathology of pain -- Affect and emotional disorders -- Anxiety, panic, irritability, phobia, and obsession -- Disorders of volition and execution -- The expression of disordered personality -- Psychopathology and diagnosis.