Clinical Interview Using Dsm-Iv-Tr The Difficult Patient

This book applies the four-dimensional interviewing approach outlined it its companion volume (The Clinical Interview Using DSM-IV-TR, Volume I: Fundamentals) to the difficult patient. It also enhances the interviewing process by employing specialized techniques that correspond with difficulties often encountered by clinicians. Through numerous case examples, this book shows how integrating psychodynamic, cognitive, and neuropsychiatric approaches--as well as the legal system's methods of cross-examination and voices stress analysis--can help elicit reliable information from tough patients and aid in solving their diagnostic puzzles.Othmer, Ekkehard is the author of 'Clinical Interview Using Dsm-Iv-Tr The Difficult Patient', published 2002 under ISBN 9781585620531 and ISBN 158562053X.