精神障碍的诊断文献psychiatry diagnosis overview.pdfVIP

Diagnosis of mental disorders How doctors diagnose: signs of the wellbeing of the person’s brain, eg in an auditory hallucination the and symptoms mental function, nerves and muscles. It is patient hears voices in his head. the tool that physicians use to identify Hallucinations can also be visual The first step towards making a diagnosis structural and psychiatric abnormality. or involve taste or touch. is to ask the patient what is wrong. Then a full history of the presenting condition A psychiatric examination is also • Delusion: a false belief based on and other relevant facts should be taken. performed to determine the individual’s an external reality eg a firmly held mental condition. This involves belief, despite proof and logical After this, a general and detailed medical investigating the individual’s abilities arguments to the contrary and examination with specific focus on the regarding orientation, attention span, one not held by others in the presenting symptoms should be concentration and memory. Any patient’s culture or society. carried out. psychopathology must also be identified, • Grandiose delusion: a belief that Patients present with or complain about for example abnormalities in perception one is great, the best, invincible, certain symptoms. These are subj