Psychotic Disorders, 1st Edition
Offering an up-to-date perspective on the complexity of mental illness Psychotic Disorders: Using Co-Morbidity Diagnoses to Enhance Treatment provides unique insight by presenting schizophrenia and psychosis as a cormorbid disorders. Comprehensive coverage of the five comorbidity subtypes includes everything from definitions of the comorbidity syndrome (with DSM-5 criteria) and how to interview to specific symptoms for the psychotic diagnosis diagnosis and treatment. This first-of-its-kind reference is a valuable clinical resource for psychiatrists neurologists neuropsychiatrists psychologists and clinicians in training as well as a useful tool for exam review.
Key Features
- Reflects current research, diagnosis, and treatment options for:
- Schizophrenia with Voices and Panic Anxiety
- Obsessive-Compulsive Schizophrenia and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
- Persecutory Delusional Disorder and Social Anxiety
- Delusional Depression and Melancholic Depression
- Bipolar I Disorder and Atypical Depression
- Substance Use Psychoses
- Medical Illness and Iatrogenic Psychoses
- Covers treatment options and outcomes with medication and psychotherapy.
- Includes sample patient interview approaches and/or biological tests for each diagnosis.
- Highlights symptoms, quasi-psychotic symptoms and secondary signs of the comorbidities when alone, and when in conjunction with psychosis.
- Reviews diagnosis-specific significance and contributory roles of neurotransmitters, hypofrontality, psychological trauma, and genetics.
- Enhanced eBook version allows access to entire book contents on most devices. Included free with book purchase, or purchase separately.
Author Information
Edited by Jeffrey P. Kahn, MD, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York, New York and André Barciela Veras, MD, PhD, Department of Psychiatry, University of the State of Mato Grosso do Sul, Campo Grande – MS, Brazil
