Psychoanalytic Diagnosis 1

 Mental Health Diagnosis....... I want to write now about Mental Health Diagnosis ( or assessing psychopathology.) I have written earlier about theory and treatment, but as psychoanalyst Mark Solms says, we cannot know how to help someone get better if we do not know what has gone wrong in their lives in the first place. This is the process of diagnosis. Mental health diagnosis is similar in some ways to physical health diagnosis. We listen, observe, interview, get to know the patient in depth, rule out various diagnoses, and finally arrive at what is going wrong in their lives that needs to change in order for them to live a healthier life. Much of the beginning phase of therapy is about coming up with the correct diagnosis. In these next few posts I am going to write about how mental health diagnosis starts out similarly to physical health diagnosis. But stick around for part two where I will talk about how different the two are as well!

8Loyd Allen, Christie Melton Kearney and 6 others

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