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A brand new selection of clinical stories covering psychiatric treatments that work and fail, and mistakes made along the journey.
List of contents
1. The case: Wearing down a diagnosis Karen Clarey, Stephanie Wong and Takesha Cooper; 2. The case: The woman who couldn't handle her lips smacking any longer Douglas Grover and Christopher G. Fichtner; 3. The case: The depressed bipolar patient on multiple medications Dale Hoang, Catherin Ha and Peter Hauser; 4. The case: The agitated patient who finally wasn't Alexander J Mageno, Nekisa Haghighat, Arthur Leitzke; 5. The case: The George that was not psychotic but anxious and distracted Edgar Ortega, Michael Seigler and Takesha Cooper; 6. The case: The man who saw enemies everywhere Joshua Poole and Stephen Maurer; 7. The case: The young woman with psychosis complicated by substance use and history of TBI Harika Reddy, Austin Nguy and Sana Johnson-Quijada; 8. The case: The woman with worsening psychosis and a mysterious rash Sireena Sy, Yatna Patel and Alexander Thanh Nguyen; 9. The case: The man without a plan Alfonso Vera and Gerald Maguire; 10. The case: The anxious depressed woman who couldn't sit still Nekisa Haghighat, Charity Hall, Dennis Alters and Gerald Maguire; 11. The case: The man who thinks it's the end of the world Erin Fletcher, Evagelos Coskinas and Phuong Vo; 12. The case: Sunny with a chance of depression Madeline Saavedra, Bo Ram Yoo, Douglas Grover and Christopher G. Fichtner; 13. The case: A not-so-simple case of anxiety Karla P. Furlong, Roberto Castaños and Bo Ram Yoo; 14. The case: I'm a woman in a man's body Sarah Grace, Matt Jason V. Llamas and Jami Woods; 15. The case: The spacey, fidgety son with overwhelming sadness Niya Larios, Casey Lester and Carl Feinstein; 16. The case: The man who spent thousands online Saloni Singh; 17. The case: The traumatized mother who can't stop bingeing Kevin Simonson and Bo Ram Yoo; 18. The case: The man who could not stop hitting people Angharad Ames and Lawrence Faziola; 19. The case: Brexpiprazole: 'An awakening' Troy Kurz, Lauren Kurz and ***Kamal; 20. The case: Treatment resistant depression and opioid dependence Kevin Simonson and Alexander H. Truong; 21. The case: Stiff patient Angharad Ames, Joshua Valverde and Gerald Maguire; 22. The case: An adolescent awakening Monish Parmar and Richard J. Lee; 23. The case: The peace keeper with a left breast mass Diem Nguyen and Brenda Jensen; 24. The case: The girl who slept with problems Joseph Yasmeh and Ijeoma Ijeaku; 25. The case: Not all child's play: a path to pediatric stability Joseph Wong, Justine Ku and Takesha Cooper; 26. The case: The young woman who was 'nothing but skin and bones. Kayla L. Fisher and Michelle Tom; 27. The case: Could it be both? Comorbid psychiatric diagnoses Ruqayyah Malik, Margaret Yau and Dennis Alters; 28. The case: Treatment-emergent mania/hypomania in a depressed patient Kevin Truong and Lawrence Yu; 29. The case: The border between mood and personality Phuong Vo and Ijeoma Ijeaku; 30. The case: The student that wanted to go to rehab Eduardo Javier, Louis May and Martin Sahakyan; 31. The case: The boy who wouldn't (couldn't) listen Alexander J Mageno, Bo Ram Yoo and Richard J. Lee; 32. The case: The patient that went streaking Louis May, Martin Sahakyan and Eduardo Javier; 33. The case: 'Perseverance' Kathleen Lopez, Courtney DiNicola and Niraj Gupta; 34. The case: Clozapine candidate discombobulates compassionate clinicians Darian Vernon, Nishant Prakash and Niraj Gupta.
About the author
Takesha J. Cooper, MD, MS is an associate clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California Riverside School of Medicine and serves as the program director of the Psychiatry residency training program.Gerald A. Maguire, MD is a Professor and Chair of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at the University of California Riverside School of Medicine.Stephen M. Stahl, MD is Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at the University of California, Riverside, and Honorary Visiting Senior Fellow in Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge.
Summary
For the third volume in Stahl's Case Studies series, Dr. Stahl partners with UCR School of Medicine faculty colleagues, residents and medical students to present new psychiatric cases addressing complex issues of direct relevance to the everyday experience of the clinician. Essential reading for all mental health professionals and students.
