Foreword; References; Contents; 1: Introduction; References; Part I: The Diagnostic Interview; 2: Validity and Reliability; 2.1 The Concept of Validity; 2.1.1 Validity of Allocating Psychiatric Diagnoses; 2.2 The Concept of Reliability; 2.2.1 Reliability of the Diagnostic Systems; References; 3: The Psychiatric Interview: Theoretical Aspects; 3.1 Typification; 3.2 The Gestalt; 3.3 Cartesian Dualism: The Inner and Outer; 3.4 Experiences and Expressions: Consciousness; 3.5 The Phenomenological Approach; References; 4: The Psychiatric Interview: Methodological and Practical Aspects

4.1 The Fully Structured Interview4.2 The Unstructured Interview; 4.3 The Semi-structured Interview; 4.4 Structured Versus Semi-structured Interview; 4.5 Rapport and the Interviewer; 4.6 How to Conduct the Psychodiagnostic Interview; 4.7 Different Settings; 4.8 Difficult Interviews; 4.8.1 The Suspicious, Guarded Patient; 4.8.2 The Withdrawn, Psychotic Patient; 4.8.3 The Threatening, Aggressive Patient; 4.8.4 The Severely Exalted Patient; 4.8.5 The Suicidal Patient; References; 5: Mental State Examination: Signs; 5.1 Appearance and Behavior; 5.2 Motor Function; 5.2.1 Catatonia

5.2.2 Compulsions/Pseudocompulsions5.2.3 Extrapyramidal Side Effects of Antipsychotic Medication; 5.3 Eye Contact and Gaze; 5.4 Rapport; 5.5 Mood; 5.6 Affects; 5.7 Speech and Language; 5.7.1 Formal Thought Disorders; 5.7.1.1 Disorganization; Semantic Disturbances; Autistic Logic; Other Formal Thought Disorders; 5.8 Cognition; 5.9 Self-Harm and Suicidal Behavior; References; Part II: The Diagnostic Spectra; 6: Navigating Between the Spectra: Organic Disorders, Schizophrenia, Affective Disorders, Personality Disorders, and Situational Problems

6.1 The Process of Differential Diagnosis6.1.1 The Prototypical Approach; 6.1.2 The Operational Approach; 6.2 Diagnostic Spectra; 6.3 The Specificity of Psychopathology; 6.4 Existential Patterns; 6.5 Diagnostic Overlaps and Comorbidity; 6.6 The Borders of Normality; 6.7 Diagnostic Slippage and Neglect; References ; 7: Considering Organic Pathology; 7.1 General Aspects of Organic Psychopathology; 7.2 The Psychiatric Expressivity of Organic Brain Disease; 7.3 Organic States Hard to Recognize; 7.4 Organic States Mimicking Functional Mental Illness

7.4.1 Organic (Secondary) Psychosis7.4.2 Organic Paranoid and Schizophrenia-Like Psychosis; 7.4.3 Organic Mood Disorders; 7.4.4 Organic Anxiety and Obsessive-Compulsive Phenomena; 7.4.5 Organic Personality Change; 7.5 Mental Illness Mimicking Organic States; 7.5.1 Pseudodementia; 7.5.2 Pseudodelirium; 7.5.3 Functional Neurological Disorders; 7.5.4 Factitious Disorder and Malingering; Literature; 8: Indicators of Psychosis; 8.1 Psychosis; 8.2 The Diagnostic Criteria of Schizophrenia; 8.3 The Clinical Core Gestalt of Schizophrenia; 8.4 Near-Psychotic Phenomena