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A lawyer's guide to understanding psychiatry
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- Creator
- John S. Carbone
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Chicago : American Bar Association, [2012]
- ©2012
- Physical Details
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- vii, 255 pages ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781614385943, 1614385947
- OCLC
- ocn796002581
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-237) and index.
- Whirlwind historical observations on Western psychiatry, or how we came to have the diagnostic and statistical manual -- Pursuing the diagnosis -- History of the current symptoms -- Past medical history -- Past psychiatric history -- Psychosocial and family history -- Physical examination with review of systems -- Mental status exam -- Testing, both laboratory and psychometric -- Differential diagnosis -- Documentation -- The neuroses and the psychoses -- The personality disorders -- Psychotropic medications and other treatment options -- The talking cure -- Other treatment modalities -- The world of psychotropic medications -- Things are not necessarily as they appear -- The divination of future dangerousness -- The elements of admissability -- Making sense of confusion -- What do the courts say? -- What is one to do?