Chapter 2 The Interview

Diagnosis through awareness of the feelings that the patient engenders in oneself. How the patient makes you feel through the course of an interaction (eg. happy sad, etc.).

Concentrating more on data supporting a desired outcome, such as a benign diagnosis in a patient one especially cares for, or quick dismissal of a troublesome patient. Being aware of your emotional reaction to the patient (autognosis) can help guard against this.

the interrelation of the unconscious and conscious mental and emotional forces that determine personality and motivation.

Encompasses degenerative conditions, metabolic encephalopathies, and other conditions with a known structural or physiological subtract that may call for medical investigation and intervention. As opposed to psychiatric consultation, behavioral intervention, or psychotherapeutic drugs.

the part of the mind in which innate instinctive impulses and primary processes are manifest. (Devil on the shoulder)

the part of the mind that mediates between the conscious and the unconscious and is responsible for reality testing and a sense of personal identity. Compare with id and superego.

the part of a person’s mind that acts as a self-critical conscience, reflecting social standards learned from parents and teachers. Compare with ego and id. (Angel on your shoulder)

Defense mechanisms to satisfy the id and superego

Changing the subject of speech by moving gradually away from it, at a tangent, and never coming back to it. Compare with circumstantiality.

1) Dealing with the subject in great detail OR 2) Circling around the subject and eventually returning to it. Compare with tangentiality.

response to anxiety that, instead of fleeing the source of fear in the manner of a phobia, actively seeks it out, in the hope of overcoming the original anxiousness

a collection of choice literary passages, used especially as an aid in learning a subject