Extraordinary Disorders of Human Behavior

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xv

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2. La Folie à Deux

   • Robert A. Faguet, Kay F. Faguet

   Pages 1-14

3. Munchausen Syndrome

   • Charles V. Ford

   Pages 15-27

4. The Ganser Syndrome

   • Daniel B. Auerbach

   Pages 29-46

5. Psychiatric Syndromes in Prisoner of War and Concentration Camp Survivors

   • Ransom J. Arthur

   Pages 47-63

6. Autoscopic Phenomena

   • James S. Grotstein

   Pages 65-77

7. Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome or Multiple Tic Disorder

   • F. S. Abuzzahab Sr.

   Pages 79-97

8. The Paranoid-Erotic Syndromes

   • F. David Rudnick

   Pages 99-119

9. Unusual Sexual Syndromes

   • Ronald F. Rebal Jr., Robert A. Faguet, Sherwyn M. Woods

   Pages 121-154

10. Koro (Shook Yang) A Culture-Bound Psychogenic Syndrome

    • Robert T. Rubin

    Pages 155-172

11. Amok

    • Joseph Westermeyer

    Pages 173-190

12. Cargo Cult Syndromes

    • Burton G. Burton-Bradley

    Pages 191-202

13. Possession States and Exorcism

    • E. Mansell Pattison

    Pages 203-213

14. The So-Called Hystero-Psychoses Latah, Windigo, and Pibloktoq

    • Claude T. H. Friedmann

    Pages 215-228

15. Psychological Disorders Among the Australian Aboriginals

    • Harry D. Eastwell

    Pages 229-257

16. Atypical Cycloid Psychoses

    • Kay Redfield Jamison

    Pages 259-291

17. Unusual Presentations of Schizophrenia

    • Ira M. Lesser

    Pages 293-306

18. Back Matter

    Pages 307-314

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Clinicians have long been fascinated by the rare and exotic in med­ icine. Similarly, psychiatrists and mental health professionals have been intrigued by the uncommon and extraordinary syndromes which, despite their rarity, have much to teach us about the limitless forms of human adaptation. Of particular interest is the fact that fragments and partial expressions of these rare disorders are often encountered in the dreams and fantasies of the "ordinary" patient. For this reason, the understanding and insights collected in this volume are likely to have clinical usefulness far beyond those rare occasions when we encounter the exotic in its fully developed form. These disorders demonstrate the complex interplay between intra­ psychic dynamic forces and the cultural influences which act to shape overt symptomatology. The section on extraordinary syndromes from non-Western cultures demonstrates the universality of the psychody­ namic roots of human suffering, despite the seemingly strange furms in which this suffering is expressed. As clinicians we are too often restricted by ethnocentric attitudes and culturally determined stereotypes. This volume provides a stimulating and enjoyable opportunity to reach beyond those limitations.

• Amok
• Syndrom
• coping
• diagnosis
• epidemiology
• etiology
• psychodynamics
• psychosis
• schizophrenia
• sexuality
• stress
• suicide
• syndromes
• thinking
• treatment
• diabetes

• Medical Center, University of California at Irvine, Orange, USA

  Claude T. H. Friedmann

• University of California at Los Angeles School of Medicine, Los Angeles, USA

  Robert A. Faguet

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