Making diagnosis meaningful : enhancing evaluation and treatment of psychological disorders /
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-IV (DSM-IV) has long been considered the Bible of diagnosis and treatment, and is the foundation of treatment decisions made by managed care companies. Yet many mental health professionals are expressing increasing, and voluble, discontent wi...
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Washington, DC :
American Psychological Association,
1998.
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Table of Contents:
- The DSM-IV and its antecedents : enhancing syndromal diagnosis / Peter E. Nathan
- Meaning and melancholia : why the DSM-IV cannot (entirely) ignore the patient's intentional system / Jerome C. Wakefield
- A psychodynamic approach to the diagnosis of psychopathology / Sidney J. Blatt and Kenneth N. Levy
- Case formulation and personality diagnosis : two processes or one? / Drew Weston
- The role of ego mechanisms of defense in the diagnosis of personality disorders / George E. Vaillant and Leigh McCullough
- Assessment in transitional family therapy : the importance of context / William H. Watson and Susan H. McDaniel
- Relationship. subjectivity, and inference in diagnosis / Nancy McWilliams
- Psychological testing, psychodiagnosis, and psychotherapy / Bruce L. Smith
- An experiential psychoanalytic approach to the assessment process / Paul M. Lerner and Howard D. Lerner
- Depression : intervention as assessment / Enrico E. Jones
- Assessment of the patient with borderline personality disorder for psychodynamic treatment / John F. Clarkin, Otto F. Kernberg, and Javiera Somavia
- Reassessing a person with schizophrenia and developing a new treatment plan / Courtenay M. Harding.