{"product_id":"evaluation-of-the-psychiatric-patient-9781468458824","title":"Evaluation of the Psychiatric Patient","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne 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.","brand":"Springer-Verlag New York Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51742566973783,"sku":"9781468458824","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/evaluation-of-the-psychiatric-patient-9781468458824","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}