Overview
Traditionally, impulsive and compulsive behaviours have been categorised as fundamentally distinct. However, patients often exhibit both of these behaviours. This common comorbidity has sparked renewed interest in the factors contributing to the disorders in which these behaviours are prominent. ""Impulsivity and Compulsivity"" applies a provocative spectrum model to this psychopathology. The spectrum model is consistent with a dimensional model for psychopathoogy and considers the dynamic interaction of biophysical forces in the development of impulsive and compulsive disorders.
Full Product Details
Author: John M. Oldham, MD MS (Professor and Interim ChairBarbara and Corbin Robertson Jr. Endowed Chair for Personality Disorders, The Menninger Clinic) ,
Eric Hollander, MD (Albert Einstein - Montefiore Med. Ctr. ) ,
Andrew E. Skodol, MD
Publisher: American Psychiatric Association Publishing
Imprint: American Psychiatric Association Publishing
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.80cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.644kg
ISBN: 9780880486767
ISBN 10: 0880486767
Pages: 312
Publication Date: 31 May 1996
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print
Availability: Awaiting stock
Reviews
The editors and contributors to this thought-provoking volume are to be congratulated for assembling a diverse body of work ranging from cognitive science to psychopharmacology and relating it to the dimensions of impulsive and compulsive behavior. -- American Journal of Psychiatry [The] editorial teamwork for this spectrum of disorders provides a comprehensive and enlightening understanding for what almost all of us in psychiatry deal with daily... The reader's responsibility in an outstanding work such as this is to actively integrate the entire material rather than turning only to the segment matching a favorite and familiar perspective or theory. -- Psychiatric Times They summarize in these ten chapters an impressive body of clinical research and treatment data backed up with extensive references that richly explore the disorders of impulsive and compulsive thought and behavior and those symptoms that have characteristics of both. -- American Journal of Psychotherapy
<p> [The] editorial teamwork for this spectrum of disorders provides a comprehensive and enlightening understanding for what almost all of us in psychiatry deal with daily... The reader's responsibility in an outstanding work such as this is to actively integrate the entire material rather than turning only to the segment matching a favorite and familiar perspective or theory. -- Psychiatric Times
Author Information
John M. Oldham, M.D. is Director of the New York State Psychiatric Institute and Chief Medical Officer of the New York State Office of Mental Health. He is also Professor and Associate Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst at Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. Eric Hollander, M.D., is Professor of Psychiatry, Director of Clinical Psychopharmacology, Clinical Director of the Seaver Autism Research Center, and Director of the Compulsive, Impulsive and Anxiety Disorders Program at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York. Dr. Hollander was previously Director of the OCD Biological Studies Program at Columbia University/New York State Psychiatric Institute. Andrew E. Skodol, M.D., is Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and Director of the Unit for Personality Studies at the New York State Psychiatric Institute. He is currently president of the Association for Research on Personality Disorders and Chairman of the New Research Subcommittee of the APA Scientific Program Committee.
