Systematic Psychiatric Evaluation

Margaret S. Chisolm, M.D., is assistant professor and director of education in the Johns Hopkins Bayview Department of Psychiatry and director of psychiatry and co-medical director for the Johns Hopkins Center for Addiction and Pregnancy. Constantine G. Lyketsos, M.D., M.H.S., is Elizabeth Althouse Professor and director of psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center and vice-chairman of the department of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins Medicine, where he is also co-director of the division of geriatric psychiatry and neuropsychiatry and director of the Memory and Alzheimer's Treatment Center.

The best go-to book I have seen for teaching thoughtful evaluation. -- Dinah Miller, MD Clinical Psychiatry News If you are a mental health clinician-or a consumer-and you want to understand psychiatric disorders-buy this book. -- Dr. Steven J. Ceresnie Notes of a Psychology Watcher A well-presented, compact summation of McHugh and Slavney's four perspectives. Faithful and concise, the descriptions are intended to formulate practical, diagram-based steps in the conceptualization of each perspective... From bereavement to cognitive decline, from bipolarity to eating disorders, from personality... to hypochondriasis, from suicidal behavior to psychosis, the cases attempt to combine theoretical cogency with clinical clarity -- Renato D. Alarcon, M.D., M.P.H. American Journal of Psychiatry Innovative in its orientation, this book not only should be used in psychiatric training programs but also would enrich the approach of many practising mental health professionals. -- Paul Grof Canadian Journal of Psychiatry It comes highly recommended as both an educational tool and an argument against the instrumentalization and reductionism prevalent in some approaches to clinical psychiatric practice. -- Kenneth Brandt Hansen Aeta Psychiatrica Scandinavica It would be good if the practical book by Chisolm and Lyketsos is used in education and if the residents (and their teachers) are so enthusiastic about it that they also read the book by McHugh and Slavney themselves. -- M.W. Hengeveld Tijdschrift voor Psychiatrie 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. -- Radu V. Saveanu, MD Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

• Foreword, by Paul R. McHugh, M.D., and Phillip R. Slavney, M.D.PrefaceAcknowledgmentsPart I: The Concepts behind the Approach1. An Introduction2. The Psychiatric Evaluation3. The Life-Story Perspective4. The Dimensional Perspective5. The Behavior Perspective6. The Disease PerspectivePart II: The Approach in ActionIntroductionCase 1 Bipolar Disorder: Maintaining Personhood in the Face of a DiseaseCase 2 A Young Man with Psychosis: The Role of Life Story and Behavior in DiseaseCase 3 A Mother's Overdose: Life Story and DimensionCase 4 A Man with Depression amidst Multiple Life Stressors: Life Story or Disease?Case 5 A Matriarch with Memory and Mood Problems: Managing Diagnostic DilemmasCase 6 An Executive with Health Worries: Dimension or Disease?Case 7 A Young Woman's Fear of Fat: An Aberration in Feeding BehaviorCase 8 A Lawyer Who Lies and Cuts: Synthesis of a Complex CaseCase 9 A Case of Bereavement: Why Psychotherapy MattersSummaryAppendix A: The Psychiatric EvaluationAppendix B: The Mental Status ExaminationReferencesIndex