Speech and Language Disorders in Psychiatry

Part 1 The background: introduction - the descriptive pathology of speech and language; disorders of thought and language in psychiatry - a conceptual history; analysis of language - terminology and techniques. Part 2 Schizophrenic disturbance of speech and language: on analyzing schizophrenic speech - what model should we use?; language impairments and executive dysfunction in schizophrenia; thought, speech and language disorder and semantic memory in schizophrenia; schizophasia - the glossomanic and the glossolalic subtypes; syntactic processing and communication disorder in first-onset schizophrenia; the psychology of schizophrenic thought; the neuropsychology of schizophrenic speech; semantic processing and categorization in schizophrenia; German concepts of schizophrenic language disorder and reality assessment; thought insertion, insight and Descartes' cogito - linguistic analysis and the descriptive psychopathology of schizophrenic thought disorder. Part 3 Other psychiatric disorders: some aspects of language disorder in dementia; the semantics of autism; growth points in the neurology of speech and language.