Get the diagnosis right
Subtitle: assessment and treatment selection for mental disorders
By: by Jerome S. Blackman.
Publisher: Brunner-Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415801546; 9780415801553
Subjects: Mental illness -- Diagnosis; Mental illness -- Treatment; Psychoanalysis; Mental Disorders -- diagnosis; Mental Disorders -- therapy; Professional-Patient Relations; Psychoanalytic Theory
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The basics; title: A bit more detail; title: Essential elaborations I; title: Essential elaborations II : conflict disorders; title: How to do an initial interview using psychoanalytic concepts; title: Deficits in basic mental functions : the details with the devil in them; title: Deficits in control and delay mechanisms : the nitty-gritty of weakness; title: Object relations deficits and self-esteem problems : distance when you least expect it; title: Superego deficits; title: Libidinal and aggressive drives : sex and violence in everyday life and in pathology; title: Affects : your feelings about everything; title: Defenses : how the mind shields itself; title: Compromise formations and psychopathology; title: Adult psychiatric evaluation : the long form.