Statistics and the Design of Experiments and Surveys Graham Dunn Introduction Research into mental illness uses a much wider variety of statistical methods than those familiar to a typical medical…
Brain and Mind Martin Davies History of the mind-brain relation The thesis that the brain, rather than the heart, is the seat of the mind was already widely accepted by…
From Science to Practice John R. Geddes The difficulties in keeping up to date Clinicians need accurate and up-to-date information about emerging knowledge on assessment and treatment as well as…
Diagnosis and Classification Michael B. First Harold Alan Pincus In Psychiatry, as in all of medicine, diagnosis is a key function and central to developing a plan of treatment for…
Questionnaire, Rating, and Behavioural Methods of Assessment John N. Hall The earliest forms of psychiatric assessment were based on direct interviews with patients, on reported observations by those who knew…
Cognitive Assessment Graham E. Powell Principles of assessment Assessment, testing, or measurement is the evaluation of the individual in numerical or categorical terms, adhering to a range of statistical and…
Assessment of Personality C. Robert Cloninger Introduction The assessment of personality provides the context needed to understand someone as a whole person with particular goals and values that they pursue…
The Principles of Clinical Assessment in General Psychiatry John E. Cooper Margaret Oates Introduction This chapter is focused on the needs of the clinician in a service for general adult…
Descriptive Phenomenology Andrew Sims Principles of descriptive phenomenology Definitions and explanations Psychopathology is the systematic study of abnormal experience, cognition, and behaviour. It includes the explanatory psychopathologies, where there are…
The Psychiatrist as a Manager Juan J. López-Ibor Jr. Costas Stefanis Introduction: integrating two perspectives The past years have witnessed the introduction and implementation of strict macro and micro economical…
