The Psychiatric Interview For Differential Diagnosis
by Lennart Jansson /
2016 / English / PDF
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This book offers an alternative to operational diagnostic manuals
and manuals for structured interviewing as the only sources of
theoretical and clinical knowledge. It provides an exposition of
psychiatric interviewing that is theoretically and clinically
well founded and supplies the reader with a coherent framework
for performance of a thorough psychiatric examination. The goal
is not to come up with
This book offers an alternative to operational diagnostic manuals
and manuals for structured interviewing as the only sources of
theoretical and clinical knowledge. It provides an exposition of
psychiatric interviewing that is theoretically and clinically
well founded and supplies the reader with a coherent framework
for performance of a thorough psychiatric examination. The goal
is not to come up withyet another interview
yet another interviewscheme
scheme
but to facilitate an understanding of the basic (but, today,
completely neglected) tenets of psychopathology and
phenomenology. This exposition targets the disorders of
subjectivity (consciousness), the second-person processes
involved in converting subjective, first-person and observable
data into a third person, diagnostically useful, format. In
addition, the most pertinent clinical descriptions concerning the
major diagnostic groups are presented and discussed.
but to facilitate an understanding of the basic (but, today,
completely neglected) tenets of psychopathology and
phenomenology. This exposition targets the disorders of
subjectivity (consciousness), the second-person processes
involved in converting subjective, first-person and observable
data into a third person, diagnostically useful, format. In
addition, the most pertinent clinical descriptions concerning the
major diagnostic groups are presented and discussed.