Blackman, Jerome S.

Get the diagnosis right : assessment and treatment selection for mental disorders / Jerome S. Blackman. - New York : Routledge, c2010. - xx, 326 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Bibliography note: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: The basics -- A bit more detail -- Essential elaborations I -- Essential elaborations II : conflict disorders -- How to do an initial interview using psychoanalytic concepts -- Deficits in basic mental functions : the details with the devil in them -- Deficits in control and delay mechanisms : the nitty-gritty of weakness -- Object relations deficits and self-esteem problems : distance when you least expect it -- Superego deficits -- Libidinal and aggressive drives : sex and violence in everyday life and in pathology -- Affects : your feelings about everything -- Defenses : how the mind shields itself -- Compromise formations and psychopathology -- Adult psychiatric evaluation : the long form.

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Mental illness --Diagnosis
Mental illness--Treatment
Psychoanalysis
Mental Disorders --diagnosis
Mental Disorders--therapy
Professional-Patient Relations
Psychoanalytic Theory

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