Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Dedication
- List of icons
- Abbreviations used in this book
- Case 1 The man whose antidepressants stopped working
- Case 2 The son who would not take a shower
- Case 3 The man who kept hitting his wife over the head with a frying pan
- Case 4 The son who would not go to bed
- Case 5 The sleepy woman with anxiety
- Case 6 The woman who felt numb
- Case 7 The case of physician do not heal thyself
- Case 8 The son whose parents were desperate to have him avoid Kraepelin
- Case 9 The soldier who thinks he is a “slacker” broken beyond all repair after 3 deployments to Iraq
- Case 10 The young man everybody was afraid to treat
- Case 11 The young woman whose doctors could not decide whether she 117 has schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or both
- Case 12 The scary man with only partial symptom control on clozapine
- Case 13 The 8-year-old girl who was naughty
- Case 14 The scatter-brained mother whose daughter has ADHD, like mother, like daughter
- Case 15 The doctor who couldn’t keep up with his patients
- Case 16 The computer analyst who thought the government would choke him to death
- Case 17 The severely depressed man with a life insurance policy soon to lose its suicide exemption
- Case 18 The anxious woman who was more afraid of her anxiety medications than of anything else
- Case 19 The psychotic woman with delusions that no medication could fix
- Case 20 The breast cancer survivor who couldn’t remember how to cook
- Case 21 The woman who has always been out of control
- Case 22 The young man with alcohol abuse and depression like father, like son; like grandfather, like father; like great grandfather, like grandfather
- Case 23 The woman with psychotic depression responsive to her own TMS machine
- Case 24 The boy getting kicked out of his classroom
- Case 25 The young man whose dyskinesia was prompt and not tardive
- Case 26 The patient whose daughter wouldn’t give up
- Case 27 The psychotic arsonist who burned his house and tried to burn himself
- Case 28 The woman with depression whose Parkinson’s disease vanished
- Case 29 The depressed man who thought he was out of options
- Case 30 The woman who was either manic or fat
- Case 31 The girl who couldn’t find a doctor
- Case 32 The man who wondered if once a bipolar always a bipolar?
- Case 33 Suck it up, soldier, and quit whining
- Case 34 The young man who is failing to launch
- Case 35 The young cancer survivor with panic
- Case 36 The man whose antipsychotic almost killed him
- Case 37 The painful man who soaked up his opiates like a sponge
- Case 38 The woman with an ever fluctuating mood
- Case 39 The psychotic sex offender with grandiosity and mania
- Case 40 The elderly man with schizophrenia and Alzheimer’s disease
- Index of Drug Names
- Index of Case Studies
Case 21 - The woman who has always been out of control
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 October 2021
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Dedication
- List of icons
- Abbreviations used in this book
- Case 1 The man whose antidepressants stopped working
- Case 2 The son who would not take a shower
- Case 3 The man who kept hitting his wife over the head with a frying pan
- Case 4 The son who would not go to bed
- Case 5 The sleepy woman with anxiety
- Case 6 The woman who felt numb
- Case 7 The case of physician do not heal thyself
- Case 8 The son whose parents were desperate to have him avoid Kraepelin
- Case 9 The soldier who thinks he is a “slacker” broken beyond all repair after 3 deployments to Iraq
- Case 10 The young man everybody was afraid to treat
- Case 11 The young woman whose doctors could not decide whether she 117 has schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or both
- Case 12 The scary man with only partial symptom control on clozapine
- Case 13 The 8-year-old girl who was naughty
- Case 14 The scatter-brained mother whose daughter has ADHD, like mother, like daughter
- Case 15 The doctor who couldn’t keep up with his patients
- Case 16 The computer analyst who thought the government would choke him to death
- Case 17 The severely depressed man with a life insurance policy soon to lose its suicide exemption
- Case 18 The anxious woman who was more afraid of her anxiety medications than of anything else
- Case 19 The psychotic woman with delusions that no medication could fix
- Case 20 The breast cancer survivor who couldn’t remember how to cook
- Case 21 The woman who has always been out of control
- Case 22 The young man with alcohol abuse and depression like father, like son; like grandfather, like father; like great grandfather, like grandfather
- Case 23 The woman with psychotic depression responsive to her own TMS machine
- Case 24 The boy getting kicked out of his classroom
- Case 25 The young man whose dyskinesia was prompt and not tardive
- Case 26 The patient whose daughter wouldn’t give up
- Case 27 The psychotic arsonist who burned his house and tried to burn himself
- Case 28 The woman with depression whose Parkinson’s disease vanished
- Case 29 The depressed man who thought he was out of options
- Case 30 The woman who was either manic or fat
- Case 31 The girl who couldn’t find a doctor
- Case 32 The man who wondered if once a bipolar always a bipolar?
- Case 33 Suck it up, soldier, and quit whining
- Case 34 The young man who is failing to launch
- Case 35 The young cancer survivor with panic
- Case 36 The man whose antipsychotic almost killed him
- Case 37 The painful man who soaked up his opiates like a sponge
- Case 38 The woman with an ever fluctuating mood
- Case 39 The psychotic sex offender with grandiosity and mania
- Case 40 The elderly man with schizophrenia and Alzheimer’s disease
- Index of Drug Names
- Index of Case Studies
Summary
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• 30-year-old woman diagnosed with long-standing schizoaffective disorder, bipolar type, polysubstance abuse in remission in a controlled environment and with premorbid childhood onset PTSD, borderline intellectual functions, and antisocial personality disorder with borderline features
• Has carried the diagnosis of PTSD related to childhood sexual and physical abuse by her father
• Juvenile and adult criminal activity and poor school performance, with cognitive testing showing cognitive and memory abilities in the borderline range
• Difficulty managing anger since age 13, longstanding impulsiveness since age 13 with psychotic illness since age 16 associated with irritable and depressed moods, auditory hallucinations (some in her father's voice) command hallucinations to harm herself, ideas of reference and persecutory ideation
• Numerous psychiatric hospitalizations, self mutilatory behavior including cutting and swallowing behaviors (e.g., keys, other objects)
• Convicted of arson and while imprisoned assaulted a prison guard but found not to be criminally responsible by reason of insanity and transferred to a forensic facility
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- Case Studies: Stahl's Essential Psychopharmacology , pp. 237 - 240Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011
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