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In this extensively revised and expanded new edition of the
classic, The Psychiatric Interview in Clinical Practice, the
authors continue to address the challenges inherent in clinical
interviewing -- the complexities of defense mechanisms,
conflicts, wishes, and fantasies -- as they did in their original
1971 edition while also acknowledging the task of adapting their
interview strategies to a new era of psychiatry. New
perspectives on psychopathology often emphasize descriptive
phenomenological approaches and encourage psychiatric
interviewing that is overly focused on describing symptoms and
establishing diagnoses. The Psychiatric Interview in Clinical
Practice stresses that the clinician needs to learn about
patients, their problems, their illness, and their lives. From
this readers will understand the universal presence of
personality types and the importance of the personality as a
determining factor in the unfolding of the psychiatric interview.
Students learning psychiatry often ask, "But what do I say to the
patient?" In 20 new and updated chapters, The Psychiatric
Interview answers that question by using clinical vignettes from
the authors' everyday work, what they said in a wide variety of
clinical situations and what they felt and thought that led them
to say it. Specifically this new edition includes, * New chapter
sections addressing the process of eliciting a patient's
psychodynamic history and the role of information technology in
the psychiatric interview.* New chapters on narcissistic,
masochistic, anxious, traumatized, and borderline patients,
emphasizing the importance of personality type in determining the
evolution of psychiatric disorders and providing copious clinical
detail illustrating both what to do and what not to do when
interviewing these patients.* A new chapter presenting a
contemporary perspective on "the patient of different
background," in which the authors offer valuable guidance on how
to approach racial, ethnic, cultural, age, and sexual-orientation
differences between interviewer and patient.* Updated chapters on
psychotic patients, patients with schizophrenia, and cognitively
impaired patients, and on depressed, obsessive-compulsive, and
histrionic patients, incorporating new, emotionally moving
vignettes of interviewer-patient interchanges garnered from the
authors' extensive clinical experience.* Updated chapters on
hospitalized, psychosomatic, and emergency patients, which are
not only psychotherapeutically instructive but also brimming with
practical advice for medical students, house staff, doctors,
nurses, and social workers. Although The Psychiatric Interview in
Clinical Practice is about psychiatric interviewing, many readers
will likely recognize aspects of themselves in some of the
clinical descriptions. The hope is that this self-re
will lead to greater self-understanding and self-acceptance as
well as to greater understanding and acceptance of others. The
clinical examples are about real people, including the authors
themselves, their friends, students, and patients. The authors
selected situations or traits that are so common and typical that
nearly all readers would be able to relate to them. The
Psychiatric Interview in Clinical Practice promises to be an
enjoyable read as well as a tremendous learning experience for
trainees in all of the mental professions, from medical
students and psychiatric residents to psychologists, social
workers, and nurses.