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OverviewA few months before the final manuscript of this book was sent to the publisher, Dr. Karl A. Menninger died, shortly before his ninety seventh birthday. Thus, when I sat down to write this preface, he was very much on my mind. I remembered that it had been almost forty years since he wrote A Manual for Psychiatric Case Study, not one of his well-known but probably the most practical of his books. The psycho analytically trained part of me began to wonder what had motivated me to write a book on a topic so similar to that which had earlier drawn the attention of my revered teacher. There is no pressing need for another book on psychiatric evaluation; furthermore, evaluation is a very diffi cult subject to write about in a straightforward way. Whatever my unconscious motivations may have been, I hope they were less significant than those of which I was aware. I wrote this book mainly as part of an effort to reverse certain trends in psychiatric educa tion. In the last decade psychiatrists have increasingly been trained in an environment that emphasizes brief evaluation of patients and de emphasizes teaching about the complexity of human behavior and ex perience. Trainees no longer study psychiatric evaluation in a systematic manner. They take fewer intensive histories, fill out forms instead of describing the patient's mental status, and, with rare exceptions, are not taught how to conceptualize biological and psychosocial interactions. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Seymour L. HalleckPublisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc. Imprint: Springer-Verlag New York Inc. Edition: Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1991 Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.340kg ISBN: 9781468458824ISBN 10: 1468458825 Pages: 224 Publication Date: 02 April 2012 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsOne The Problems of Evaluation in Psychiatry.- Two Obtaining Information from the Patient.- Three Taking the History: Part I.- Four Taking the History: Part II.- Five Evaluating the Patient’s Current Situation and Personality Traits.- Six The Mental Status Examination.- Seven Additional Procedures and Tests in the Diagnostic Process, Laboratory Testing, Electroencephalogram, Imaging, and Psychological Testing.- Eight Evaluation of Capacities in Psychiatry.ReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |