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Weave Press · Volume One

Reading the Patient

A Field Guide to Dimensional Psychiatry.

By Dr Wilfred D'souza

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Contents
The HiTOP map page
The HiTOP map
Opening chapter — A young woman, four days awake
Opening chapter
From categories to dimensions — Part I opening
From categories to dimensions

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What this is

A teaching text, not a reference book. The lens you put on before you reach for the checklist.

Most clinical teaching in India still defaults to the DSM-5. Academic psychiatry has moved on. This book teaches you to read a patient the way the field actually thinks now — six spectra, a general factor of psychopathology, an eight-domain mental state examination, all held together by Bayesian reasoning. Three composite case scenes show the same eight-domain reading applied in three rooms: the casualty at two in the morning, the Wednesday-morning OPD, the post-operative surgical ward.

Written for the MBBS intern, the family physician, the emergency registrar, the senior resident before viva, the MPhil clinical psychology student. The clinician with a stethoscope is who I am writing for first.

Inside

Opening
  1. A young woman, four days awake
  2. What this book is, and what it is not
  3. Psychiatry is the medicine of inference under uncertainty
Part I · How psychiatry actually thinks now
  1. From categories to dimensions
  2. HiTOP in plain English
  3. Computational psychiatry, briefly
  4. Network thinking
  5. Illuminative psychiatry
Part II · The dimensional mental state examination
  1. Stance
  2. Appearance and behaviour
  3. Speech
  4. Mood and affect
  5. Thought, form and content
  6. Perception
  7. Cognition
  8. Insight and judgement
Part III · Three rooms, three patients
  1. The casualty at two in the morning
  2. The Wednesday-morning clinic
  3. The surgical ward, post-operative day three
Part IV · When to refer, when to start
  1. The red flags that move the decision today
  2. The good-enough first step
  3. Talk, medicine, or both
  4. The Indian context, briefly and honestly
Closing & appendix
  1. What to watch in the next two years
  2. What to read next
  3. About the author
  4. Appendix A — The HiTOP cheat sheet
  5. Appendix B — Symptom to spectrum, a quick-reference card
  6. Appendix C — Twenty self-test questions
  7. Appendix D — Glossary

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Why this one is paid

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Educational material for healthcare professionals. Not medical advice for any individual patient. The authors do not warrant outcomes from clinical use.