Psychiatric examination: from theory to practice

• includes subjective part (patient) and objective (physician) description
• description of the current mental state and its psychopathology → diagnosis
• notice and compare changes over time
• Contents of psychiatric examination
• close-ended questions especially in bipolar patients lol
• Important things to pay attention to
• Essential syndromes (all belong to ICD F)
• intrapsychic hallucinations (ICD) =delusions (DSM V)
• Lack of insight: anosognosia is correlated with changes in the prefrontal cortex → treat patients asap to prevent irreversible brain changes
• highest % of suicidality is gender dysphoria (transsexuality) regardless of environment (supportive or not), anorexia also dangerous
• Psychosis= altered touch with reality (what is real? what not?)
• Example- Schizophrenia