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.
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Reflects current research, diagnosis, and treatment options for:
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Schizophrenia with Voices and Panic Anxiety
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Obsessive-Compulsive Schizophrenia and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
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Persecutory Delusional Disorder and Social Anxiety
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Delusional Depression and Melancholic Depression
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Bipolar I Disorder and Atypical Depression
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Substance Use Psychoses
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Medical Illness and Iatrogenic Psychoses
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Covers treatment options and outcomes with medication and psychotherapy.
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Includes sample patient interview approaches and/or biological tests for each diagnosis.
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Highlights symptoms, quasi-psychotic symptoms and secondary signs of the comorbidities when alone, and when in conjunction with psychosis.
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Reviews diagnosis-specific significance and contributory roles of neurotransmitters, hypofrontality, psychological trauma, and genetics.
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Enhanced eBook version allows access to entire book contents on most devices. Included free with book purchase, or purchase separately.
André Barciela Veras, M.D., PhD, is Professor of Psychiatry in the Medical School of the State University of Mato Grosso do Sul. Fruitful research partnerships and meticulous discussions of clinical experience with superb mentors have contributed immensely to the content of this book. His psychosis research papers all reflect all those collaborations. He graduated from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, where he also obtained his master’s, doctoral and post-doctoral degrees.
Jeffrey P. Kahn, M.D. is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Weill-Cornell Medical College in Manhattan. This work on psychosis draws from research and clinical experience, and from academic interests in precision diagnosis, anxiety disorders and evolution. His book on evolutionary psychopathology (Angst: Origins of Anxiety and Depression, Oxford, 2012) included a preliminary overview of some ideas described here. He graduated from Swarthmore College and the Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons.
