The Paranoid's Pocket Guide to Mental Disorders You Can Just Feel Coming on

By Dennis DiClaudio

Book Overview

Giving neurotics everywhere something to worry about, The Paranoid's Pocket Guide to Mental Disorders You Can Just Feel Coming On profiles more than 40 of the most outrageous and yet eerily familiar psychological disorders--a fascinating array of obsessions, compulsions, phobias, fixations, and full-blown mental maladies.

Every disorder is well documented, including common symptoms, causes, and treatment options, along with a handy quiz for easy self-diagnosis. And in case you can't tell whether or not you're losing it, each entry includes a sample inner monologue detailing the thought processes at play--because sometimes you don't know you're crazy until you see it in writing.

This humorous guide to the nuttiness within all of us will have even the most rational thinkers second-guessing their sanity.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0760366306
• ISBN13: 9780760366301
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Becker & Mayer
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.2" x 6.4"

Customer Reviews

Fun series of books

DeClaudio has written several "Guide Books" that are excellent to leave laying around for guests to pick up, turn to any page and get a smile. He has basically taken a subject and then bull dog through the topics that are most apt to make the reader squirm (and laugh out loud). Lots of fun. I'm using the same review of all books in the series. No matter which ones you choose you'll enjoy equally.....bg

its a great book!

the book came in great condition and i read it its a great read as well

entertaining and educational

I didn't read this cover to cover, but thought it was pretty entertaining and also educational. I think it would be a fun informal supplement to an abnormal psych class. The descriptions are vivid and funny, and that makes it easy to remember them. Instead of an abstract, stark, clinical description of symptoms, you get the "gist" of the disorder.

Five stars

This is an excellent addition to the DiClaudio's "Hypochondriac's Guide..." This book is significantly larger than its predecessor (at least three times longer!), yet maintains that same biting sense of medical humor without. A warning - if you're like me, you'll find at least three or four mental disorders in this book that you very well could have. Of course, it's always good to have a reason to give for your erratic behavior. If you could handle the grossness of the previous book, you'll probably be mostly unswayed by the unnerving disorders in this one. Use this book to diagnose all your friends! :)