Overview

This text applies the four-dimensional interviewing approach outlined in its companion volume The Clinical Interview Using DSM-IV-TR, Volume One: Fundamentals to the difficult patient. It also enhances the interview process by employing specialized techniques that correspond with difficulties often encountered by clinicians. Through numerous case examples it shows how integrating psychodynamic, cognitive and neuropsychiatric approaches - as well the legal system's methods of cross-examination and voices stress analysis - can help elicit reliable information from tough patients and aid in solving their diagnostic puzzles. Updated for DSM-IV-TR, it strives to overcome generalization in interviewing by promoting a differential approach that individualizes and explores each disorder and all its contributing factors in depth, thus preparing the patient for optimal therapeutic intervention.

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Author:   Ekkehard Othmer ,  Sieglinde C. Othmer
Publisher:   American Psychiatric Association Publishing
Imprint:   American Psychiatric Press Inc.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.60cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.726kg
ISBN:  

9781585620531

ISBN 10:   158562053
Pages:   560
Publication Date:   12 October 2001
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Part I: Symptom Language. Conversion. Dissociation. Posttraumatic stress. Somatization. Part II: Psychotic Communication. Psychotic acting out. Catatonia. Part III: Cognitive Impairment. Inattention and hyperactivity. Amnesia. Delirium. Dementia. Mental retardation. Part IV: Self-Protective and Deceptive Behavior. Concealing. Falsifying and lying. Factitious behavior. Self-deceptive behavior. Index.

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<p> This is a very helpful book on a difficult area of psychiatry. -- John Claro Onate, B.S., M.D., Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center, Doody's Publishing , March 2002

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