Get the Diagnosis Right: Assessment and Treatment Selection for Mental Disorders

ISBN-13: 9780415801553 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 346 str.

Jerome S Blackman

Opis

Jerome Blackman presents a better way to make more accurate diagnosis - including the hows and whys (if known) of mental disturbance. He assesses whether deficits or conflicts are causing what a clinician observes, and then formulates what may be causing them.

Spis treści

Part I: The Quick and Dirty. The Basics. A Bit More Detail. Essential Elaborations I: Deficit Disorders. Essential Elaborations II: Conflict Disorders. How to Do an Initial Interview Using Psychoanalytic Concepts--Brief Format: 24-41 Minutes. Part II: The Rest of the Story. Deficits in Basic Mental Functions--The Details with the Devil in them. Deficits in Control and Delay Mechanisms: The Nitty-gritty of Weakness. Object Relations Deficits and Self-Esteem Problems: Distance When You Least Expect It. Superego Deficits. Libidinal and Aggressive Drives. Affects--Your Feelings about Everything. Defenses--"How the Mind Shields Itself". Compromise Formations and Psychopathology-- Everything You Wanted to Repress about Conflict Disorders. Adult Psychiatric Evaluation: The Long Form.