Concepts of mental disorder : a continuing debate / edited by Alan Kerr, Hamish McClelland.

London : Gaskell, [1991], ©1991.

x, 149 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

"Contributions in this book derive from papers given at a symposium, "Concepts of medical disorder", October 1989 "--P. facing t.p

Foreword / Kenneth Rawnsley -- Introduction / Alan Kerr and Hamish McClelland -- The major functional psychoses: are they independent entities or part of a continuum? / Robert E. Kendell -- Critique of the concept of 'unitary psychosis' / Sir Martin Roth -- The failure of the Kraepelinian binary concept and the search for the psychosis gene / Timothy J. Crow -- The congenital and adult-onset psychoses: Kraepelin lost, Kraepelin found / Robin M. Murray and Eadbhard O'Callaghan -- Affective symptoms in schizophrenia, basic, prodromal and residual: implications for a functional approach to diagnosis / Steven R. Hirsch -- An American perspective on the conceptual approaches to psychopathology / Gerad L. Klerman -- A European perspective on the conceptual approaches to psychopathology / Erik Strömgren -- Unitary psychosis and the psychiatry of old age / David Kay -- The affective disorders: bipolar disorder and major depression / Myrna M. Weissman -- Neuroses and personality disorders / Peter Tyrer -- Nosology and neurosis / Philip Snaith.

Includes bibliographic references and index