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Author Dimaggio, Giancarlo

Title Metacognition and Severe Adult Mental Disorders : From Research to Treatment
Published Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (340 pages)
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
Summary 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, showing how research informs clinical practice
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Subject Mental illness.
Metacognition.
Mental Disorders
mental disorders.
Mental illness
Metacognition
Form Electronic book
Author Lysaker, Paul
ISBN 9780203855782
0203855787
1282570005
9781282570009