assessment and treatment selection for mental disorders Blackman, Jerome S. creator text New York Routledge c2010 monographic xx, 326 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. 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. Jerome S. Blackman. Bibliography note: Includes bibliographical references and index. Mental illness Diagnosis Mental illness Treatment Psychoanalysis Mental Disorders diagnosis Mental Disorders therapy Professional-Patient Relations Psychoanalytic Theory 616.891 7 BLA 9780415801553