The Hidden Medical Causes of Mental Disorders by William Matteson, Ph. D. Missing The Diagnosis: The Hidden Medical Causes Of Mental Disorders. Learning Objectives. This is an intermediate. After taking this course, mental health professionals will be. List and. discuss four medical causes of mental disorders. Describe how. mood disorders can be triggered by the immune system. European Mystery Scent Of Desire Ce SgoExplain how. genetic predispositions may increase the probability of mental illnesses. Describe. how medications and polypharmacy may trigger cognitive and emotional. Discuss how. social and emotional malfunctioning may be triggered by toxins in the. List. metabolic disorders and the data supporting them. Discuss. ethical and legal considerations in providing information about. Troubleshoot. mental disorders which have been previously labeled, “treatment. Work. effectively with patients, primary care physicians and psychiatrists. Course Outline PART I: Underlying Causes. Missing it. The Mind/Body Dilemma. PART II: 8 Important Areas of Evaluation. Brain Development. The Immune System. Thyroid. Pathogens. Toxins. Clostridium Difficile. Medications. The Endocrine System. Central Nervous System Pathologies. Medical Illnesses Linked to Mental Problems. References. PART I: Underlying Causes“A number. Conversely, it is possible to fall ill despite living a life of unruffled. Nationally Accredited Continuing Education Courses for Psychologists, Social Workers, Counselors, and Marriage and Family Therapists. Paul Martin, Ph. D. The Healing Mind. Since the dawn of civilization, mental illness has fascinated us. In ancient times. Other. societies believed that these behaviors were due to possession by incubi and. More recent. theories included organ malfunction, such as the belief that hysteria was caused. Others touted Hippocrates’ imbalance of humors. More. recent theories have included suppressed memory, trauma, poor parenting, and refrigerator. The most wildly held belief of mental maladies today is that they. For the last. several decades, the field of mental health has been dominated by two major. Up until a. century ago, mental illnesses were diagnosed and treated by medical doctors. It. wasn’t until about 1. European Mystery Scent Of Desire Ce Sg TigerySoon afterward, psychotherapy delivered by non- medical professionals began to. Medical. illnesses can cause people to experience a baffling array of emotional. People suffering from these problems are. If there are accompanying medical problems. In addition, psychological reactions to. Whenever a. patient presents a psychological problem, there is a very real possibility that. Understanding the role that. Although most patients will not have a causative underlying medical condition. While. psychotherapists should not live in fear of missing an unsuspected medical. This course will. Naturally, it is not. It will, however, lay the groundwork to allow a therapist. Although not every mental. Missing it“Many. mental hospitals are living museums of undiscovered bodily disease.”FMR Walshe, MD “The more that is understood about how the human mind processes complex information, the more it becomes clear that certain situations are particularly susceptible to less than optimal outcomes because of these errors.”Antoinette Laskey, M. D., M. P. H. Consider this. A family comes to a psychotherapist for help because the middle child. He refuses to go to bed at night.
During the. day, he is hyper- reactive and non- compliant. This often leads to family. As the. therapist works with the family, it becomes clear that the fights are. Although the family. It is a. baffling situation. Neither the therapist nor the family members are aware that. This medical condition, not his emotional. Without a physical and lab. Although many. psychotherapists are aware of the possibility that underlying physical. As a result, they can easily miss the signs that might lead. Even. internists and physicians at hospitals often miss the underlying medical causes. Despite advances in medical technology, there. At best, medical. When. the patient's symptoms do not correspond precisely to the reference books or to. The challenge. of finding potential underlying medical causes is complex. This makes failure. Bias in diagnosis: How We Miss It“The. Helen Le- Niculescu, Ph. D. Searching for causes“We intend to forget the richness of our ignorance – how much we don’t know and how essentially we learned what we do now.“Dan Agin Ph. D. Biological Psychology. For most. psychotherapists, a good proportion of clients come for help in coping with the. These may include unwanted moods, uncomfortable thoughts. Outpatient. psychotherapy, couples therapy, and family therapy are some of the many. Family therapists routinely work. While psychologists and other mental health professionals in. There is no. doubt that many family therapies and psychotherapies can be useful and. Family therapy, couples therapy. Although. people may leave therapy feeling better, problems often recur. Even couples or. families who leave your office thanking you profusely may reappear at your door. People with chronic depression inevitably relapse. These. events suggest that, beneath a presenting problem, may lay an undetected. Most psychotherapists. Nevertheless, all. In the last. few years, incredible developments in neuroscience, genetics. We see that. for which we look“I’ll see. I believe it.”Thane Pittman, Ph. D. Psychotherapists. To diagnose means to observe, identify, and determine the cause of a disease or. To make a differential diagnosis means to distinguish between. The diagnosis. of a mental disorder is most often done by observing signs and symptoms which. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM). Practitioners also use tests and assessments as diagnostics tools. Although. these techniques have value, they seldom address the cause of the mental. In his book, A. Dose of Sanity, psychiatrist Sydney Walker points out that “a label is not. DSM- V has included a category named the neurocognitive disorder, which was formally known in DSM- IV as 'dementia, delirium, amnestic, and other cognitive disorders.'We know what. We use words. like reactive depression, endogenous depression, or organic mental. The truth is. that many medical disorders manifest themselves by psychological symptoms and organic. We diagnose what we believe. Getting. caught in the presentation. An initial. evaluation usually begins with an interview about the person’s major complaint. When people come to us for help, they describe their problems. As they are. doing so, we listen carefully for signs and symptoms. For example, if Mr. Johnson tells us he is not sleeping well, has aches and pains all over his. If he tells us that he has racing thoughts and difficulty sleeping. This strategy is useful, but. Getting. caught in the story. Once we begin. to feel confident that we have the diagnosis, we get a history of Mr. Johnson. We want to know about his childhood, his family, his hopes, and his fears. We. are looking for pieces of his history that fit our theory. When he tells us. Oftentimes, we do not question the veracity of what we. Getting. caught in the theory. All mental. health professionals are trained in certain theories of diagnosis and. They come to believe, for example, that depression is caused by. One of the. pitfalls of effective psychological intervention is theoretical bias. All of us have specific training, received from professors who had their own. Although being trained in a certain type of. I was struck. by this many years ago while in graduate school. One on my professors – who. Although her. husband was clear about wanting a child, she was ambivalent and worried that. The. professor’s theory was that his patient had some deep, repressed ambivalence. He felt confident that, once these feelings came to. He told us that, after four. Unfortunately, in this case, the problem was not well- suited for. As the years rolled by and the patient became older, the. Pet theories come. Some have value, some are fads, and some are simply bizarre. In 1. 98. 7. author Whitley Strieber wrote Communion, an allegedly non- fiction book. After reading his book, dozens of people flocked to the fast- growing. John Mack, a well- known psychiatrist and. Harvard professor, set the diagnostic criteria for alien abduction syndrome. During this. period, there was another spate of unusual encounters – an upsurge in cases. At the time, I was on the treatment staff of three psychiatric. Each of these hospitals had opened a special unit for people who had. All subsequently developed multiple personality disorder. I listened. carefully to the experts at the hospital as they explained the origin of these.
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