Systematic Psychiatric Evaluation

Reviews / Votes

The best go-to book I have seen for teaching thoughtful evaluation. -- Dinah Miller, MD Clinical Psychiatry News If you are a mental health clinician-or a consumer-and you want to understand psychiatric disorders-buy this book. -- Dr. Steven J. Ceresnie Notes of a Psychology Watcher A well-presented, compact summation of McHugh and Slavney's four perspectives. Faithful and concise, the descriptions are intended to formulate practical, diagram-based steps in the conceptualization of each perspective... From bereavement to cognitive decline, from bipolarity to eating disorders, from personality... to hypochondriasis, from suicidal behavior to psychosis, the cases attempt to combine theoretical cogency with clinical clarity -- Renato D. Alarcon, M.D., M.P.H. American Journal of Psychiatry Innovative in its orientation, this book not only should be used in psychiatric training programs but also would enrich the approach of many practising mental health professionals. -- Paul Grof Canadian Journal of Psychiatry It comes highly recommended as both an educational tool and an argument against the instrumentalization and reductionism prevalent in some approaches to clinical psychiatric practice. -- Kenneth Brandt Hansen Aeta Psychiatrica Scandinavica It would be good if the practical book by Chisolm and Lyketsos is used in education and if the residents (and their teachers) are so enthusiastic about it that they also read the book by McHugh and Slavney themselves. -- M.W. Hengeveld Tijdschrift voor Psychiatrie I believe that this book will be a useful companion to psychiatric residents and other mental health practitioners who struggle to better understand, diagnose, and treat patients with complex psychiatric and medical conditions. -- Radu V. Saveanu, MD Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease