Psychiatric Interview in Clinical Practice 2006

Psychiatric Interview in Clinical Practice
Author: Mackinnon
Hardcover
December 2006

American Psychiatric Press

In this meticulously revised and expanded edition of "The Psychiatric Interview in Clinical Practice," the authors continue to address the challenges inherent in clinical interviewing?the complexities of defense mechanisms, conflicts, wishes, and fantasies?as they did in their original 1971 edition, while also undertaking the daunting task of adapting their interviewing strategies to a new era of psychiatry, one that has witnessed revolutionary breakthroughs in neuroscience, genetics, psychopharmacology, and brain-imaging research.

In 20 new and updated chapters, the authors comprehensively examine the strategy and conduct of psychodynamically informed clinical interviewing, accommodating the DSM-IV-TR diagnostic nomenclature but also being forthright in critiquing its limitations. Included are new chapters on traumatic, narcissistic, masochistic, anxiety, and borderline conditions and a contemporary perspective on interviewing ?the patient of different background? (i.e., the patient whose race, ethnicity, culture, age, or sexual orientation is different from that of the interviewer). Updated chapters discuss modern psychodynamic theories; interviewing in the context of psychosis, schizophrenia, and cognitive impairment; strategies with hospitalized, psychosomatic, and emergency patients; and approaches with depressed, obsessive-compulsive, and histrionic patients. Incorporated throughout are compelling vignettes of interviewer-patient interchanges garnered from the authors' extensive clinical experience.

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