Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
PART I: General Principles
Chapter 1. General Principles of the Interview
Chapter 2. General Principles of Psychodynamics
PART II: Major Clinical Syndromes
Chapter 3. The Obsessive-Compulsive Patient
Chapter 4. The Histrionic Patient
Chapter 5. The Narcissistic Patient
Chapter 6. The Masochistic Patient
Chapter 7. The Depressed Patient
Chapter 8. The Anxiety Disorder Patient
Chapter 9. The Traumatized Patient
Chapter 10. The Borderline Patient
Chapter 11. The Antisocial Patient
Chapter 12. The Paranoid Patient
Chapter 13. The Psychotic Patient
Chapter 14. The Psychosomatic Patient
Chapter 15. The Cognitively Impaired Patient
PART III: Special Clinical Situations
Chapter 16. The Emergency Patient
Chapter 17. The Hospitalized Patient
Chapter 18. The Patient of Different Background
PART IV: Technical Factors Affecting the Interview
Chapter 19. Note Taking and the Psychiatric Interview
Chapter 20. Telephones, E-Mail, and the Psychiatric Interview
Afterword
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Roger A. Mackinnon, M.D., is Professor Emeritus of Clinical Psychiatry in the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, and Training and Supervising Analyst at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, in New York, New York. Robert Michels, M.D., is Walsh McDermott University Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry at Weill Medical College of Cornell University, and Training and Supervising Analyst at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, in New York, New York.

Peter J. Buckley, M.D., is Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University in Bronx, New York; and Training and Supervising Analyst at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research in New York, New York.

Reviews

As a resident psychiatrist, I found this book extremely enlightening. In addition to providing a framework for approaching various types of patients, it elucidated many missteps from notably poor patient encounters from my training. The clinical vignettes in each chapter serve to further develop this education. They are especially helpful in transforming concepts of the psychiatric interview into tangible applications that can be more easily incorporated into clinical practice. Throughout the book, the authors address potential transference, countertransference, motivations for patients' behavior, and nuances of the psychiatric interview. This helps stem the clinicians' frustrations during the interview, improve empathy, and thereby achieve the authors' goal. Overall, I would highly recommend this book to colleagues, but a more thorough discussion of the manic patient would be helpful, especially for residents learning to manage this particularly difficult interview.