Clinical Diagnosis of Mental Disorders

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Diagnostic Techniques

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Research in Clinical Diagnosis

      • Joseph Zubin

      Pages 3-14

   3. Classification and Diagnosis of Mental Disorders

      • Benjamin B. Wolman

      Pages 15-45

   4. The Interview: Its Reliability and Validity in Psychiatric Diagnosis

      • Joseph D. Matarazzo

      Pages 47-96

   5. An Overview of Psychological Measurement

      • Jum C. Nunnally

      Pages 97-146

   6. The Rorschach

      • John E. Exner Jr., Beth Clark

      Pages 147-178

   7. Thematic Apperception Test and Related Methods

      • Morris I. Stein

      Pages 179-235

   8. Holtzman Inkblot Technique

      • Wayne H. Holtzman

      Pages 237-254

   9. The Sentence Completion Method

      • Robert I. Watson Jr.

      Pages 255-279

   10. Projective Drawings: Two Areas of Differential Diagnostic Challenge

       • Emanuel F. Hammer

       Pages 281-310

   11. The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)

       • John R. Graham

       Pages 311-331

   12. The Hutt Adaptation of the Bender-Gestalt Test: Diagnostic and Therapeutic Implications

       • Max L. Hutt

       Pages 333-353

   13. Clinical Contributions of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale

       • Joel Allison

       Pages 355-392

   14. Diagnostic Applications of the Hand Test

       • Edwin E. Wagner

       Pages 393-443

   15. The Measurement of the Self-Concept

       • Leonard D. Goodstein, Deborah Lee Doller

       Pages 445-474

   16. Objective Personality Inventories: Recent Research and Some Contemporary Issues

       • James N. Butcher, Patricia L. Owen

       Pages 475-545

   17. Wolman’s Sociodiagnostic Interview

       • Benjamin B. Wolman, Andrea Alper, Steve DeBerry

       Pages 547-575

3. Differential Diagnosis

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 577-577

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   2. Concerning the Rationale of Diagnostic Testing

      • Albert I. Rabin, David L. Hayes

      Pages 579-599

For centuries the "treatment" of mentally disturbed individuals was quite simple. They were accused of collusion with evil spirits, hunted, and persecuted. The last "witch" was killed as late as 1782 in Switzerland. Mentally disturbed people did not fare much better even when the witchhunting days were gone. John Christian Reil gave the following description of mental pa­ tients at the crossroads of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries: We incarcerate these miserable creatures as if they were criminals in abandoned jails, near to the lairs of owls in barren canyons beyond the city gates, or in damp dungeons of prisons, where never a pitying look of a humanitarian penetrates; and we let them, in chains, rot in their own excrement. Their fetters have eaten off the flesh of their bones, and their emaciated pale faces look expectantly toward the graves which will end their misery and cover up our shamefulness. (1803) The great reforms introduced by Philippe Pinel at Bicetre in 1793 augured the beginning of a new approach. Pinel ascribed the "sick role," and called for compas­ sion and help. One does not need to know much about those he wants to hurt, but one must know a lot in order to help. Pinel's reform was followed by a rapid develop­ ment in research of causes, symptoms, and remedies of mental disorders. There are two main prerequisites for planning a treatment strategy.

• Therapeut
• brain
• diagnosis
• intelligence
• planning
• research
• schizophrenia
• treatment

• International Encyclopedia of Psychiatry, Psychology, Psychoanalysis, & Neurology, New York, USA

  Benjamin B. Wolman

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