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.

• 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.