Psychotic Disorders - E-Book (eBook)

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 and other disorders including anxiety, panic, and obsessive disorders.
• Reviews the diagnosis-specific significance and roles of dopamine, hypofrontality, trauma, and genetics.
• Highlights the secondary signs and symptoms of comorbidity alone and in conjunction with psychosis.
• Covers treatment options including medication, psychotherapy, course, improved outcome, and timespan.
• Includes sample patient interview questions and biological tests for each diagnosis.

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A counterintuitive and novel approach to the long-sought goal of subtyping schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders emerges from ongoing research. Five psychosis associated anxiety and depressive subtypes each help define five corresponding psychosis diagnoses, their fixed false beliefs, and most importantly, their treatments. These anxiety and depressive comorbidities have long been long overlooked as an understandable hodgepodge of distressing symptoms caused by the pain of psychosis. But these five comorbidities usually precede onset of the psychosis, and their treatment can significantly improve outcome. So, maybe, the causation is the other way around: maybe they are among the underlying contributors to schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders. The chapter authors expertly detail the data supporting this innovative approach. They provide fictional case studies, DSM-5 diagnostic criteria, specific interviewing approaches for the five comorbidities in psychosis patients, and improved treatment options. Other chapters explore psychoses related to substance use, medical illness and medical treatment, as well as other factors that contribute to psychotic disorders. This first-of-its-kind reference is a valuable clinical, educational, research and training resource for psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses, social workers, neurologists and anyone interested in the care and treatment of someone with a psychotic disorder. - 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.