Distinguishing Psychological From Organic Disorders, 2nd Edition: Screening for Psychological Masquerade [Hardcover]

Robert L. Taylor MD (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 8, 2000

Psychological symptoms are not always best explained psychologically! This volume is designed to help clinicians assess medical conditions which are "masquerading" as psychological ones. The author provides essential clues to our understanding of organic disease and shows us how to look for these clues during the clinical interview process. Common clinical pitfalls, simple assessment tests, and over 100 case studies are included. An annotated bibliography to this practical guide make this an essential resource for mental health practitioners.

New to this edition: obsessive / compulsive disorders; the "love delusion"; postictal psychosis; an update on AIDS dementia complex; addition of atypical neuroleptics; SSRI's and newer general medications; an alternative medicine section; multiple sclerosis; ADHD; Lyme's disease; and an updated bibliography and references.

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About the Author

Robert L. Taylor, MD, is a consulting psychiatrist and former associate clinical professor of family medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine. In addition to private practice, he has held academic, administrative, and clinical positions including Training Specialist, National Institutes of Mental Health; Program Chief, Marin County Community Mental Health Services; Consulting Psychiatrist, states of California and Texas; Director, Student Health Services, California State University, Northridge; and Medical Director, Austin-Travis County Mental Health Mental Retardation Center. Among his other books are Mind or Body (1982) and Health Fact, Health Fiction (1990).

Product Details

• Hardcover: 280 pages
• Publisher: Springer Publishing Company; 2 edition (June 8, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 082611329X
• ISBN-13: 978-0826113290
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.2 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,423,174 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent in teaching graduate psychology students, August 8, 2000

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David Fenstermaker Ph.D. (San Jose, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Distinguishing Psychological From Organic Disorders, 2nd Edition: Screening for Psychological Masquerade (Hardcover)

"Distinguishing Psychological from Organic Disorders: Screening for Psychological Masquerade" is an excellent orientation and foundation for the beginner, and the proficient in the field of psychology and counseling. It is a direct and straight forward review of medical disorders that pass for psychiatric illnesses. I have used the book since it first came out in teaching graduate students in a Masters Program, as well as, in a Doctoral Program. Students find it easy to read and more important easier to understand and apply to case formulations and to case dispositions. I have recommended this textbook to many other faculty members for both their own background fund of information, as well as, for their use in teaching. Libraries, at several schools have ordered the book based on my recommendation. Robert Taylor has kept the book up-to-date and practical through several editions including when it was first released as "Mind or Body: Distinguishing psychologic from organic" back in 1982.

I have also given it to clients to read relevant chapters in order to better understand themselves or their relatives and family members. Many have enjoyed it enough, that they have purchased the book for themselves.

I am a Psychologist, a member of the National Registry of Health Care Providers in Psychology, and have been working in this field since 1972 and I have been a faculty member for the last fourteen years and this is one of the best books in the area of teaching psychodiagnosis that I have used to teach this material. It has been consistently rated the highest scores by students who have taken my classes, they only wish the other texts that I use would be as easy to digest and apply -they say that it "...sets their expectations high for the other texts..."