Clinical Diagnosis of Mental Disorders A Handbook

Clinical Diagnosis of Mental Disorders A Handbook / edited by Benjamin Wolman.

For centuries the "treatment" of mentally disturbed individuals was quite simple. They were accused of collusion with evil spirits, hunted, and persecuted. The last "witch" was killed as late as 1782 in Switzerland. Mentally disturbed people did not fare much better even when the...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Wolman, Benjamin (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 1978.
Edition:1st ed. 1978.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Psychiatry.
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Table of Contents:
  • I: Diagnostic Techniques
  • 1 Research in Clinical Diagnosis
  • 2 Classification and Diagnosis of Mental Disorders
  • 3 The Interview: Its Reliability and Validity in Psychiatric Diagnosis
  • 4 An Overview of Psychological Measurement
  • 5 The Rorschach
  • 6 Thematic Apperception Test and Related Methods
  • 7 Holtzman Inkblot Technique
  • 8 The Sentence Completion Method
  • 9 Projective Drawings: Two Areas of Differential Diagnostic Challenge
  • 10 The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)
  • 11 The Hutt Adaptation of the Bender-Gestalt Test: Diagnostic and Therapeutic Implications
  • 12 Clinical Contributions of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale
  • 13 Diagnostic Applications of the Hand Test
  • 14 The Measurement of the Self-Concept
  • 15 Objective Personality Inventories: Recent Research and Some Contemporary Issues
  • 16 Wolman’s Sociodiagnostic Interview
  • II: Differential Diagnosis
  • 17 Concerning the Rationale of Diagnostic Testing
  • 18 Diagnosing Brain Impairment
  • 19 Diagnosing Psychosomatic Situations
  • 20 Diagnosing Mental Deficiency
  • 21 Diagnosing Schizophrenia
  • 22 Diagnosis in Old Age
  • 23 Diagnosing Personality States
  • 24 Diagnosing Neurotic Disorders
  • 25 Dia?nostic Procedures in the Criminal Justice System.

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