Guides for history taking and clinical examination of psychiatric cases
- Albany, Newyork The Newyork State Hospital Commission 1921
Offers guidelines on the art of history taking and techniques of examining mental patients. The guidelines contain details of various topics: on thorough history taking of mental patients like, family history, personality, intelligence; details on physical examination like general type, appearance and condition, and the systems of the body of a patient; and a good deal of information on various tests that can be conducted to determine the behavior, stream of mental activity, emotional reaction, sensorium, mental and capacity of a patient.