Metacognition and Severe Adult Mental Disorders : From Research to Treatment.

Metacognition and Severe Adult Mental Disorders : From Research to Treatment.

Many adults who experience severe mental illness also suffer from deficits in metacognition - limiting their abilities to recognize, express and manage naturally occurring painful emotions and routine social problems and to fathom the intentions of others. This book presents an overview of the field...

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Main Author: Dimaggio, Giancarlo
Other Authors: Lysaker, Paul
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2010.
Subjects:
Mental illness.
Metacognition.
mental disorders.
Mental illness
Metacognition
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Table of Contents:
  • Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Introduction; Part I Theory: The neural and social basis for metacognition and its disorders; Chapter 1 Seeing ourselves: What vision can teach us about metacognition; Chapter 2 Social understanding through social interaction; Chapter 3 The developmental roots of compromised mentalization in complex mental health disturbances of adulthood: An attachment-based conceptualization; Part II Metacognitive disorders in different clinical populations: Its relation with symptoms, interpersonal functioning and adaptation.
  • Chapter 4 Metacognition in schizophrenia spectrum disorders: Methods of assessing metacognition within narrative and links with neurocognitionChapter 5 Schizophrenia and social functioning: The role of impaired metacognition; Chapter 6 Awareness is not the same as acceptance: Exploring the thinking behind insight and compliance; Chapter 7 The assessment of theory of mind in schizophrenia; Chapter 8 Commonsense, disembodime.

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