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Guides for history taking and clinical examination of psychiatric cases

Guides for history taking and clinical examination of psychiatric cases

H. Kirby, George

Paperback

Medical ReferenceGeneral PsychologyGeneral World History

ISBN10: 9353609224
ISBN13: 9789353609221
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Apr 25 2019
Pages: 86
Weight: 0.26
Height: 0.21 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Before the diagnosis comes the encounter: a room, a patient, and the duty to listen without drifting. Ask the right questions first. George H. Kirby's Guides for history taking and clinical examination of psychiatric cases is a practical psychiatric examination manual from the era when modern clinical psychiatry was being shaped at the bedside and in the asylum. It brings together a medical history taking guide, mental status exam techniques, and disciplined psychiatric interview questions, showing how to record symptoms, habits, and course of illness with consistency. Kirby emphasises careful notation of speech, mood, memory, and orientation, and the ordering of findings so different examiners can compare records across wards, years, and institutions with less bias and more continuity today. For clinicians who want structure, it supports differential diagnosis psychiatry through systematic observation rather than speculation, reflecting kraepelin style diagnosis and the asylum case record methods that trained early hospital psychiatrists. It reads like a working clinical psychiatry handbook: direct, methodical, and built for use. As a document of early 20th century psychiatry and classic American psychiatry, Kirby's approach illuminates how language, categories, and examination habits evolved into the foundations of contemporary practice. Medical students building clinical skills and psychiatry residents seeking a study guide will value its clear scaffolding; collectors will appreciate its place in the history of psychiatric medicine. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint -- a collector's item and a cultural treasure.

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