Communication and Mental Illness: Theoretical and Practical Approaches -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Part I: Background -- 1 Disorders of communication and mental illness -- 2 Anxiety Disorders: Neurotic, Stress-Related and Somatoform Disorders -- 3 Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders -- 4 Depression and Other Mood Disorders -- 5 Personality Disorders -- 6 Communication, Language and Mental Illness -- 7 Assessment of Speech and Language in Mental Health -- 8 Neuropsychiatry and Language -- 9 Neuropsychology in Psychiatric Practice -- Part II: Management of Mental Health Services -- 10 Introduction to Management and Patient Care -- 11 Functioning of the Multidisciplinary Team and the Speech and Language Therapist -- 12 The Speech and Language Therapist as a Member of the Mental Health Multidisciplinary Team -- 13 Setting Up a Speech and Language Therapy Network in Mental Health -- 14 Developing a Speech and Language Therapy Service in Mental Health -- 15 General Psychiatry -- 16 Services for Older People in Mental Health Settings -- 17 Child Psychiatry -- 18 Mental Health, Offenders and the Criminal Justice System -- 19 Forensic Psychiatry -- 20 People with Borderline-Mild Learning Disability -- 21 What Can We Learn From the Deaf Patient? -- 22 Communication and Mental Health in People with Autism and Asperger's Syndrome -- 23 Gender Identity Disorders -- 24 Milieu Therapy -- 25 Personal Construct Psychology -- 26 Neurolinguistic Programming in Mental Health -- 27 A Multidisciplinary Therapeutic Alliance: Group Work Developed Through Cognitive Behavioural Principles -- 28 Interpersonal Skills as Part of Social Skill Training for Patients with Schizophrenia -- Part III: The Way Forward -- 29 Human Communication, Language and Mental Health: Some General Challenges for Research in this Field.

30 Communication and Formal Thought Disorder in Schizophrenia -- 31 Language and Communication in Schizophrenia: A Communication Processing Model -- 32 Linguistic Deviance in Schizophrenia: Preliminary Report -- 33 Discourse Analysis in Psychiatry -- 34 What is Different About the Language of Persons with Mental Illness? -- 35 Language Difficulties or Emotional Difficulties - What Comes First? -- 36 Communication and Mental Health: The Way Forward -- Appendix: Some Useful Addresses of Organisations Linked to Mental Health Work -- The Contributors -- Subject Index -- Author Index.