Book Reviews: Feeling Unreal: Depersonalization Disorder and the Loss of the Self. By Simeon, Daphne & Abugel, Jeffrey . Oxford University Press. 2006. 242 pp. £16.99 (hb) ISBN 0195170229

Feeling Unreal: Depersonalization Disorder and the Loss of the Self. By Simeon Daphne. & Abugel Jeffrey. Oxford University Press. 2006. 242 pp. £16.99 (hb) ISBN 0195170229

The constellation of symptoms that constitutes depersonalisation is often as perplexing to the therapist as to the sufferer. Interest in it has fluctuated over the years; it was much discussed and studied in the mid-20th century by such luminaries as Mayer-Gross, Schilder, Roth and Shorvon but its intellectual appeal seemed to decline thereafter. Fortunately, interest in the condition has revived in recent years, which has been reflected in the psychiatric literature. This monograph, which aims to review present...