Resolving Difficult Clinical Syndromes: A Personalized Psychotherapy Approach

Provides clinicians with a combination of conceptual background and step-by-step practical advice to guide their treatment of the clinical disorders listed under Axis I of the DSM-IV-TR: Substance Abuse, Schizophrenia, Mood, and Anxiety Disorders. "Personalized Psychotherapy: Resolving Difficult Clinical Cases" helps clinicians adjust their plans to personalities and treatment of the whole, complex person. Chapters cover: Mood-Related Syndromes such as Dysthymic, Major Depressive, and Bipolar Disorders, Acute, Post-Traumatic, and Generalized Anxiety Syndromes; Anxiety-Related Psychological Syndromes such as Phobic, Dissociative, and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders; Anxiety-Related Physical Syndromes, and Substance-Related and Schizophrenia-Spectrum Disorders.