Foundations of psychiatry
Chapter 1
Foundations of psychiatry
2 topics
- 1History of psychiatry. Classification of mental disorders according to the International Classification of Diseases – 10th edition (ICD-10)How psychiatry grew from the humours and the asylum into a medical specialty with drugs, psychological treatments and care in the community, and how mental disorders are classified, led by ICD-10's chapter V, the classification this exam uses, beside DSM-5-TR and ICD-11.
- 2Psychiatric interview: objectives, structure, content, and process. Standardized assessment instruments in psychiatryThe psychiatric interview is psychiatry's main diagnostic tool and the start of treatment. This page covers what it sets out to do, its phases, the history and the mental state examination, risk, cognitive testing, the physical examination and investigations, the formulation, the skills that make it work, and the standardised instruments that support it.