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20th August 2005, 10:32 PM
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 M.S. 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, wherein 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 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) in large part is 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 contained within the specifications of the Diagnostic and
Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (IV). Indeed, this advanced degree of
detail should prove 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, however, ultimately allows the current communicational approach
to formally be proposed. In light of the chances of being impacted by
mental illness at some time during one's life (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
www.angelfire.com/rnb/fairhaven/cbd.html
www.charactervalues.org
Trade softcover (7.44 x 9.69 inches) - 276 pages
resolved in the ground-breaking new book - Communication Breakdown: Decoding
the Riddle of Mental Illness, Edited by John E. LaMuth M.S. 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, wherein 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 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) in large part is 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 contained within the specifications of the Diagnostic and
Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (IV). Indeed, this advanced degree of
detail should prove 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, however, ultimately allows the current communicational approach
to formally be proposed. In light of the chances of being impacted by
mental illness at some time during one's life (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
www.angelfire.com/rnb/fairhaven/cbd.html
www.charactervalues.org
Trade softcover (7.44 x 9.69 inches) - 276 pages