Main description:

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.

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.

Contents:

1. Introduction

2. Psychotogenesis Overview

3. Diagnosis: OCD/Schizo-Obsessive

4. Diagnosis: Panic/Panic Psychosis

5. Diagnosis: Social Anxiety/Delusional Disorder

6. Diagnosis: Melancholia/Delusional Depression

7. Diagnosis: Atypical Depression/Mania

8. Diagnosis: Substance Abuse Psychosis