Table of Contents:
- Psychiatry v. everything else
- Psychiatry v. law
- The mental status examination v. common sense
- Diagnosis v. jargon : some common psychiatric diagnoses, and what exactly is schizophrenia, anyway?
- Bad v. mad : doing it on purpose versus doing it because you're crazy
- Insight v. lack thereof
- Treatable disorders v. permanent brain damage
- Mad v. sick : medical problems masquerading as mental illness and iatrogenic psychiatric symptoms
- Drugs v. your brain
- Mental illness v. hearing voices : malingering, its copycats and its implications
- Your expert witness v. the other guy.
