Psychotic Disorders

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.

Table of 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