Table of contents from Metrics and Art of Psychiatry

February 28th, 2008

1. Preface
2. Metrics in Psychiatry
a. Brief history of three decades
b. Fads and fashions in Psychiatry
c. What Works? (Model of Mind)
d. Imagine – Outpatient, Inpatient
e. You can do your own research
3. Art of Psychiatry
a. Art of psychotherapy
b. Therapeutic alliance
c. Transference
d. The body and the mind
e. How to assess a psychotherapy patient- Capacity to change, Developmental view
f. Skill deficit vs. pathology
g. A critique of attachment therapy
h. Therapeutic Child Inpatient Unit
i. Therapeutic Adolescent unit
j. Adult staff in child and adolescent setting
k. Conduct disorder unit
l. Adult inpatient unit
m. Art of Psychopharmacology- styles, Polypharmacy
n. Art of psychiatric administration