Originally published in 1986, in this work Professor Keehn assesses the contributions of experimental psychology and ethology to psychiatric theory and practice at the time. He discusses the status of animals in psychopathology, and describes a number of animal clinical pictures, covering both abnormal movements and convulsions, and spontaneous behavioural disorders. He also includes animal models of such psychiatric illnesses as neurosis, psychosis, drug addiction and disorders of childhood, and examines the nature of mental illness and the status of psychiatric diagnosis.
The book includes an evaluation of the ethics of experimental research with animals and a summary of humane experimental procedures. Animal Models for Psychiatry will be of special interest to psychiatrists, clinical and physiological psychologists, behavioural pharmacologists, and to veterinarians.
Preface. Part 1: Domains of Biological Psychiatry 1. Psychopathology: The Status of Animals 2. Animal Experiments and Animal Welfare Part 2: Animal Clinical Pictures 3. Abnormal Movements and Convulsions 4. Behavioural Anomalies and Misdemeanours Part 3: Animal Models of Disease Entities 5. Experimental Neurosis and Psychophysiological Disorders 6. Animals and Addictions 7. True and Model Psychosis 8. Disorders of Childhood 9. Summary and Conclusions. References. Subject Index. Name Index.
Biography
J. D. Keehn
