Description
Book SynopsisFor students, the book includes useful guides to psychiatric assessment and diagnosis.
Trade ReviewWritten for the medical student and the psychiatric resident and the psychology and social work intern. For those readers, it is a masterly summary of what we know about the normal brain, and how it goes awry. Metapsychology 2011 A masterly summary of what we know about the normal brain, and how it goes awry. -- Nassir Ghaemi Metapsychology 2011
Table of ContentsPreface
Acknowledgments
1. Organic Mind
1.1. Why Mind Matters
1.2. A Brain Primer
1.3. Summary: Organic Mind
2. Elementary Mind
2.1. Not Shaken, Stirred: Inappropriate Arousal
2.2. Sate Ain't So: Immoderate Appetites
2.3. Sense Insensibility: Misperceptions
2.4. Nominal Anomaly: Confounded Cognition
2.5. Inaction in Action: Motion Sickness
2.6. Order Disorder: Dysregulated Actions
2.7. Summary: Elementary Mind
3. Integral Mind
3.1. Off -Track Vetting: Disrupted Attention
3.2. Forget-Me-Not, Not: Faulty Memory
3.3. Stark, Craving Mad: Bad Habits
3.4. Executive Bummery: Value Misjudgment
3.5. You Can't Always Want What You Get: Emotional Miscue
3.6. Displeasure Principle: Displaced Desire
3.7. Fear Factory: Hyperactive Alarm
3.8. Summary: Integral Mind
4. Synthetic Mind
4.1. Leaning Disability: Unbalanced Bias
4.2. Veer Goggles: Personality Non Grata
4.3. Cardinal Knowledge: Beyond Belief
4.4. No Thyself: Misshapen Identity
4.5. Quid Pro Woe: Cooperative Contretemps
4.6. Piece of Mind: Communicatino Breakdown
4.7. Social Insecurity: Dissaffiliation
4.8. Complain Speaking: Help-Seeking Misbehavior
4.9. Summary: Synthetic Mind
5. Psychiatric Mind
5.1. Psychiatry Rebuilt
5.2. Mending Mentation
5.3. Summary: Psychiatric Mind
Appendix A: The Official Version: A Guided Tour of the DSM
Appendix B: The Novice's Guide to Psychiatric Assessment
Glossary
References
Additional Reading
Index
