Get the diagnosis right : assessment and treatment selection for mental disorders /
By: Blackman, Jerome S.
Publisher: New York : Routledge, c2010Description: xx, 326 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780415801546 (hardback : alk. paper); 9780415801546:; 0415801540 (hardback : alk. paper); 9780415801553 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0415801559 (pbk. : alk. paper).Subject(s): Mental illness -- Diagnosis | Mental illness -- Treatment | PsychoanalysisDDC classification: 616.8917Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 to 41 minutes -- 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 : conscience and ego ideal lacunae -- Libidinal and aggressive drives : sex and violence in everyday life and in pathology -- 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.
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.