Psychiatric Semiology — Expert Atlas of Psychism

Psychiatry · Clinical Specialties

How it begins

La semiología psiquiátrica es la ciencia que estudia los signos y síntomas de los trastornos mentales, sus combinaciones en síndromes y su organización en diagnósticos. A diferencia de la semiología médica clásica —dominada por hallazgos físicos objetivos—, la semiología psiquiátrica opera en la interfaz entre la objetividad clínica y la subjetividad de la experiencia vivida del paciente.

What it covers

1. Introduction to Psychiatric Semiology
2. · 1.1 The Mental State Examination (MSE)
3. · 1.2 Relationship between Symptom, Sign and Syndrome
4. Consciousness and its Alterations
5. · 2.1 Quantitative Alterations of Consciousness
6. · 2.2 Qualitative Alterations of Consciousness
7. Attention and its Alterations
8. · 3.1 Attention Alterations
9. Orientation and its Alterations
10. Memory and its Alterations
11. · 5.1 Types of Memory
12. · 5.2 Quantitative Memory Alterations
13. · 5.3 Paramnesias — Qualitative Distortions of Memory
14. Thought and its Alterations
15. · 6.1 Alterations in the Form of Thought (Process)
16. · 6.2 Alterations of Thought Content
17. · 6.3 The Delirium — Exhaustive Description
18. Language and Speech
19. Perception and its Alterations
20. · 8.1 Hallucinations
21. · 8.2 Illusions, Hallucinosis and Other Perceptual Phenomena
22. Affectiveness and its Alterations
23. · 9.1 Taxonomy of Affective States
24. · 9.2 Quantitative Mood Alterations
25. · 9.3 Qualitative Alterations of Affect
26. Psychomotor and its Alterations
27. · 10.1 Quantitative Alterations of Motor Activity
28. · 10.2 Catatonic Syndrome
29. · 10.3 Other Psychomotor Phenomena
30. Instinctive and Vegetative Functions
31. · 11.1 Sleep
32. · 11.2 Appetite and Eating Behavior
33. · 11.3 Libido and Sexual Function
34. Introspection, Criticism and Judgment
35. · 12.1 Insight (Introspection / Illness Awareness)
36. · 12.2 Clinical Judgment
37. Major Psychiatric Syndromes
38. · 13.1 Major Depressive Syndrome
39. · 13.2 Manic Syndrome
40. · 13.3 Schizophrenic Syndrome
41. · 13.4 Acute Confusion Syndrome (Delirium)
42. · 13.5 Dementia Syndrome
43. · 13.6 Dissociative Syndrome
44. The Psychiatric Interview
45. · 14.1 Structure of the Psychiatric History
46. · 14.2 Psychiatric Interview Techniques
47. Psychiatric Evaluation Scales
48. · Guiding Principle of Psychiatric Semiology