The Difficult Patient (Clinical Interview Using Dsm-IV Vol. 2) [Hardcover]

Ekkehard Othmer (Author), Sieglinde C. Othmer (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0880485205 | ISBN-13: 978-0880485203 | Publication Date: December 1994

"The Clinical Interview Using DSM-IV, Volume 2: THe Difficult Patient" applies the four dimensional interviewing approach outlined in the previous volume ("The Clinical Interview Using DSM-IV, Volume 1: Fundamentals") to the difficult patient. It also enhances the interviewing process by employing specialised techniques that correspond with difficulties often encountered by clinicians. Through numerous case examples, this book shows how integrating psychodynamic, cognitive and neuropsychiatric approaches - as well as the legal system's methods of cross-examination and voice stress analysis - can help elicit reliable information from tough patients and aid in solving their diagnostic puzzles. Written to correspond to the DSM-IV, this book strives to overcome generalisation in interviewing by promoting a differential approach that individualises and explores each disorder and all its contributing factors in depth, thus preparing the patient for optimal therapeutic intervention.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 576 pages
• Publisher: American Psychiatric Press (December 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0880485205
• ISBN-13: 978-0880485203
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.4 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,246,191 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent introduction to the intial psychiatric interview, December 10, 1998

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This review is from: Fundamentals (Clinical Interview Using Dsm-IV) (Paperback)

Fundamentals introduces diagnositic interviewing in a simple and straightforward manner. The chapter on the mental status exam is one that I return to many times. It alone makes the book worthwhile. The psychodynamic and characterological aspects are not to the level of other older texts (i.e MacKinnon and Michels). Overall this book has been very useful to me as a psychiatry resident. It is as important to have at the desk as Kaplan and Sadock's textbook.