The Perspectives approach to psychiatry focuses on four aspects of psychiatric practice and research: disease, dimensional, behavior, and life-story. In Systematic Psychiatric Evaluation, Drs. Margaret S. Chisolm and Constantine G. Lyketsos underscore the benefits of this approachshowing how it improves clinicians' abilities to evaluate, diagnose, and treat patients.Drs. Chisolm and Lyketsos use increasingly complex case histories to help the mental health provider evaluate patients demonstrating symptoms of bipolar disorder, psychosis, suicidal ideation, depression, eating disorders, and cutting, among other conditions. The book also includes an exercise that simulates the Perspectives approach side by side with traditional methods, revealing the advantages of a method that engages not one but four points of view. Featuring a foreword by Drs. Paul R. McHugh and Phillip R. Slavney, the founders of the Perspectives approach, this innovative book will be used in psychiatric training programs as well as by practicing mental health clinicians.
Foreword, by Paul R. McHugh, M.D., and Phillip R. Slavney, M.D. Preface Acknowledgments Part I: The Concepts behind the Approach 1. An Introduction 2. The Psychiatric Evaluation 3. The Life-Story Perspective 4. The Dimensional Perspective 5. The Behavior Perspective 6. The Disease Perspective Part II: The Approach in Action Introduction Case 1 Bipolar Disorder: Maintaining Personhood in the Face of a Disease Case 2 A Young Man with Psychosis: The Role of Life Story and Behavior in Disease Case 3 A Mother's Overdose: Life Story and Dimension Case 4 A Man with Depression amidst Multiple Life Stressors: Life Story or Disease? Case 5 A Matriarch with Memory and Mood Problems: Managing Diagnostic Dilemmas Case 6 An Executive with Health Worries: Dimension or Disease? Case 7 A Young Woman's Fear of Fat: An Aberration in Feeding Behavior Case 8 A Lawyer Who Lies and Cuts: Synthesis of a Complex Case Case 9 A Case of Bereavement: Why Psychotherapy Matters Summary Appendix A: The Psychiatric Evaluation Appendix B: The Mental Status Examination References Index
""I believe that this book will be a useful companion to psychiatric residents and other mental health practitioners who struggle to better understand, diagnose, and treat patients with complex psychiatric and medical conditions.""
