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Book SynopsisA few months before the final manuscript of this book was sent to the publisher, Dr. Karl A. Menninger died, shortly before his ninety seventh birthday. Thus, when I sat down to write this preface, he was very much on my mind. I remembered that it had been almost forty years since he wrote A Manual for Psychiatric Case Study, not one of his well-known but probably the most practical of his books. The psycho analytically trained part of me began to wonder what had motivated me to write a book on a topic so similar to that which had earlier drawn the attention of my revered teacher. There is no pressing need for another book on psychiatric evaluation; furthermore, evaluation is a very diffi cult subject to write about in a straightforward way. Whatever my unconscious motivations may have been, I hope they were less significant than those of which I was aware. I wrote this book main
Table of ContentsOne The Problems of Evaluation in Psychiatry.- Two Obtaining Information from the Patient.- Three Taking the History: Part I.- Four Taking the History: Part II.- Five Evaluating the Patient’s Current Situation and Personality Traits.- Six The Mental Status Examination.- Seven Additional Procedures and Tests in the Diagnostic Process, Laboratory Testing, Electroencephalogram, Imaging, and Psychological Testing.- Eight Evaluation of Capacities in Psychiatry.
