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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813897603321

Autore

Blackman Jerome S.

Titolo

Get the diagnosis right : assessment and treatment selection for mental disorders / / Jerome S. Blackman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2010

ISBN

1-135-96636-2

1-135-96637-0

1-283-04549-4

9786613045492

0-203-87757-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (347 p.)

Disciplina

616.89/17

Soggetti

Mental illness - Diagnosis

Mental illness - Treatment

Psychoanalysis

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The basics -- A bit more detail -- Essential elaborations I -- Essential elaborations II : conflict disorders -- How to do an initial interview using psychoanalytic concepts -- 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 : sex and violence in everyday life and in pathology -- Affects : your feelings about everything -- Defenses : how the mind shields itself -- Compromise formations and psychopathology -- Adult psychiatric evaluation : the long form.

Sommario/riassunto

Dr. Jerome Blackman, author of 101 Defenses: How the Mind Shields Itself, has once again crafted an extraordinarily user-friendly book that demonstrates to all readers, from trainees to advanced analysts, the process of diagnosing mental disturbance. Get the Diagnosis Right provides a systematic method for accurately determining whether a person suffering with mental problems needs medication,



supportive/cognitive, dynamic, and/or psychoanalytic treatment. Amalgamating the most useful ideas from general psychiatry, cognitive psychology, and modern psychoan