

Beschreibung
Describes a wide-ranging and representative selection of clinical scenarios, making use of icons, questions/answers and tips. Informationen zum Autor Stephen M. Stahl is Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California! San Diego! and Neuroscien...Describes a wide-ranging and representative selection of clinical scenarios, making use of icons, questions/answers and tips.
Informationen zum Autor Stephen M. Stahl is Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California! San Diego! and Neuroscience Education Institute! Carlsbad! California! USA. Klappentext Describes a wide-ranging and representative selection of clinical scenarios. Zusammenfassung Capitalizing on Dr Stahl's greatest strength - the ability to address complex issues in an understandable way and with direct relevance to the everyday experience of clinicians - this book is about living through the treatments that work! the treatments that fail! and the mistakes made along the journey. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The man whose antidepressants stopped working; 2. The son who would not take a shower; 3. The man who kept hitting his wife over the head with a frying pan; 4. The son who could not go to bed; 5. The sleepy woman with anxiety; 6. The woman who felt numb; 7. The case of physician do not heal thyself; 8. The son whose parents were desperate to have him avoid Kraepelin; 9. The soldier who thinks he is a 'slacker' broken beyond all repair after 3 deployments to Iraq; 10. The young man everybody was afraid to treat; 11. The young woman whose doctors could not decide whether she has schizophrenia! bipolar disorder or both; 12. The scary man with only partial symptom control on clozapine; 13. The 8-year-old girl who was naughty; 14. The scatter-brained mother whose daughter has ADHD! like mother! like daughter; 15. The doctor who couldn't keep up with his patients; 16. The computer analyst who thought the government would choke him to death; 17. The severely depressed man with a life insurance policy soon to lose its suicide exemption; 18. The anxious woman who was more afraid of her anxiety medications than of anything else; 19. The psychotic woman with delusions that no medication could fix; 20. The breast cancer survivor who couldn't remember how to cook; 21. The woman who has always been out of control; 22. The young man with depression and alcohol abuse - like father! like son! like grandfather! like father! like great grandfather! like grandfather; 23. The woman with psychotic depression responsive to her own TMS machine; 24. The boy getting kicked out of his classroom; 25. The young man whose dyskinesia was prompt and not tardive; 26. The patient whose daughter wouldn't give up; 27. The psychotic arsonist who burned his house and tried to burn himself; 28. The woman with depression whose Parkinson's Disease vanished; 29. The depressed man who thought he was out of options; 30. The woman who was either manic or fat; 31. The girl who couldn't find a doctor; 32. The man who wondered if once a bipolar always a bipolar?; 33. Suck it up! soldier! and quit whining; 34. The young man who is failing to launch; 35. The young cancer survivor with panic; 36. The man whose antipsychotic almost killed him; 37. The painful man who soaked up his opiates like a sponge; 38. The woman with an ever fluctuating mood; 39. The psychotic sex offender with grandiosity and mania; 40. The elderly man with schizophrenia and Alzheimer's Disease; Index. ...
Autorentext
Stephen M. Stahl is Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego, and Neuroscience Education Institute, Carlsbad, California, USA.
Klappentext
Capitalizing on Dr Stahl's greatest strength - the ability to address complex issues in an understandable way and with direct relevance to the everyday experience of clinicians - this book is about living through the treatments that work, the treatments that fail, and the mistakes made along the journey.
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