Systematic Psychiatric Evaluation

Margaret S. Chisolm, M.D., is Vice Chair for Education and Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, as well as Medicine, at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Board-certified in both general psychiatry and addiction medicine, Dr. Chisolm has nearly 3 decades of clinical experience in these fields. In addition, she has served as PI or co-investigator on multiple nationally funded research projects. At Johns Hopkins, Dr. Chisolm is also a member of the Miller Coulson Academy of Clinical Excellence and the Director of the Paul McHugh Program for Human Flourishing. Constantine G. Lyketsos, M.D., M.H.S., is Elizabeth Althouse Professor and director of psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center and vice-chairman of the department of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins Medicine, where he is also co-director of the division of geriatric psychiatry and neuropsychiatry and director of the Memory and Alzheimer's Treatment Center.

Slavney, the originators of the Perspectives approach, this innovative book will be used in psychiatric training programs as well as by practicing mental health clinicians.

This book could be a major addition to revitalizing the absolute necessity of a thorough psychiatric evaluation leading to comprehensive treatment in a field that is rapidly deteriorating to 'read the DSM and prescribe medication.' Psychiatry needs to be saved from itself and this book may be a major agent in that effort. -- Arnold E. Andersen, M.D., University of Iowa College of Medicine