Insight in Psychiatry, PDF eBook

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Questions concerning the nature of insight in patients with mental illness have interested clinicians for a long time.

To what extent can patients understand disorders which affect their mental function?

Does insight carry a prognostic value? Is impaired insight determined by the illness or are other factors important?

Despite considerable research examining insight in patients with psychoses, non-psychotic disorders and chronic organic brain syndromes, results are inconclusive and insight remains a source of some mystification.

Ivana S. Markova examines the problems involved in studying insight in patients with mental illness in order to provide a clearer understanding of the factors that determine its clinical manifestation.

She puts forward a new model to illustrate the relationship between different components of insight in theoretical and clinical terms, and points to directions for future research.

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