Description
Book SynopsisUnique resource detailing the day-to-day activity of doctors who work on the coal face of psychiatry in an acute setting Dynamic Consultations With Psychiatrists is the outcome of a collaboration between the psychiatrists of a certain hospital and the author, which has continued successfully for more than ten years, containing a number of patient consultations and cases where psychiatry was used successfully to solve a patient's problem. The presentation of each case, and particularly of the consultation, is meant to demonstrate the process by which insights were gained. Each consultation is written in plain English with the deliberate avoidance of terminology and especially psychoanalytic jargon. Naturally, all identified features of the patients have been deleted or changed so that the patients' privacy is not compromised. The format is near to a transcript so that the work demonstrates how the understanding evolves and emerges from the process. The structure of the book is not accor
Table of ContentsIntroduction 1
Section I Affective Presentations 5
1 Depression 7
2 Postnatal Depression 35
3 Bipolar Affective Disorder 40
4 Suicidal 45
Section II Neurotic Presentations 95
5 Low Mood: Suicidal Attempt 97
6 Anxiety 137
7 Agoraphobia 145
8 Obsessive- Compulsive Disorders 148
9 Emotional Dysregulation 155
10 Adjustment Disorder 173
Section III Eating Disorders 179
11 Bulimia 181
12 Deliberate Self- Harm; Self- Neglect 187
Section IV Addictions 193
13 Alcoholism 195
14 Cocaine Addiction 199
Section V Psychosomatic Presentations 205
15 Fatigue 207
16 Sleeping Disorders 213
Section VI Quasi-Psychotic Phenomena 233
17 Ideas of Persecution 235
18 Ideas of Reference; Hallucinations 239
19 Forensic: Shoplifting 244
Index 248
