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From Memories to Mental Illness: A Conceptual Journey

By William M. Hall (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer US
Year
1996
ISBN
978-1-4613-8011-5, 978-1-4613-0351-0
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4613-0351-0
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
11 MB (11463874 bytes)
Series
Emotions, Personality, and Psychotherapy
Edition
1
Pages
288\279
Time added
2013-12-12 02:00:00
Clinical Psychology; Cognitive Psychology; Psychia

Description

From Memories to Mental Illness explores a ground-breaking hypothesis based on the premise that memories are stored as electrically associated entities reflecting the natural organization of those experiences from which they rose. In the book's first half, the neuroscience of memory storage and retrieval, emotional expression, and other basic processes are considered and a comprehensive hypothesis is formulated. The proposed theory is used in the second half as a rational theoretical explanation for such major psychiatric conditions as multiple personality disorder, depression, mania, and psychogenic amnesia. This text is supported by detailed illustrations to elucidate abstract concepts.

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