The Medical Evaluation of Psychiatric Patients

by Roger C. Sider, Robert-Frédéric Klein, Randolph B. Schiffer

Book Overview

One of the fascinations of psychiatry is that it is amenable to many different approaches. In seeking to account for mental disorder, for example, it is pos- sible to explore the meaning and significance of symptoms in the psychody- namic sense, to examine the social determinants of illness, or to adopt an es- sentially biological viewpoint in investigating links between physiological and psychological dysfunction .. As a clinical discipline it may...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0306429578
• ISBN13: 9780306429576
• Release Date: October 1988
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 247 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"