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The History‑Taking Compendium

Every question worth asking, in the order a good clinician asks it.

A complete reference for the psychiatric history and mental state examination, built to the NIMHANS proforma and aligned to the RGUHS MD exit exam.

440 pages that move from the opening question to the formulation, with the clinical reasoning that holds them together. Written to pass the exam, and to stay on your desk for the decade of practice after it.

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Adopting the ICD-11 from ICD-10

A Resident's Coding Guide

Three manuals, one spine: read across from any code and see exactly what changed.

Synopsis

A coding concordance that sets ICD-10, ICD-11 and DSM-5-TR side by side, in ICD-10 (F-block) order, so a clinician fluent in one can read straight across to the others. Every F-block worked card by card, near-verbatim to the source texts, with a coding companion for comorbidities, post-coordination and the codes beyond the mental chapter, and clickable alphabetical and crosswalk indices. Built for the resident sitting an exit exam in one classification while training in another.

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The Resident's Atlas of Psychiatric Prescribing

Every major treatment guideline, set side by side. An India-first comparison.

Where the guidelines agree, where they diverge, and what is actually prescribable in India.

Synopsis

Twenty-one disorder chapters and ten cross-cutting therapeutics that lay the world's treatment guidelines side by side, by disorder and by phase, harmonising a dozen grading languages onto one five-point key with every body's own native grade kept beneath it. A drug atlas then runs from the drug outward, by class and by condition, and an India-first lens (DCGI approval, brand availability, NDPS scheduling and cost) runs throughout. Built for the resident who wants to see, at a glance, where the agreement is firmest and where judgement is needed.

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Psychopathology for Residents

The descriptive tradition, in twelve chapters

The phenomenology set out the way a mental state is actually read, from consciousness to personality.

Synopsis

A companion for descriptive psychopathology, compiled across postgraduate training and drawn from the classical tradition of Fish, Sims, and Jaspers. Twelve chapters move in the order a mental state is examined: consciousness, perception, thought, speech, emotion, the self, memory, motor behaviour, and personality, each with its disorders, the history that shaped the concept, and the exam points that get tested. Built for quick revision on a clinical posting and the night before a viva.

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Weaving the Self

Volume One: Foundations. A clinician's manual of integrative psychotherapy.

The interview and formulation that come before any modality is chosen.

Synopsis

The foundation volume of the Weave therapy system: how to conduct a full life-course interview, how to listen for identity, attachment and schema seeds inside ordinary answers, and how to build a formulation that moves from broad to specific without losing the person. It closes with the complete foundation interview, working maps, prompts, and field-ready clinical forms. Written for therapists and residents who want their first sessions to do real work.

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Weaving the Self

Volume Two: Modalities, Cases, Appendices.

Eight modality guides, one integration stance, and twenty-two worked cases.

Synopsis

The working volume of the Weave therapy system. Eight modality guides with explicit clinical lenses: schema therapy, CBT, ACT, metacognitive therapy, DBT, emotion-focused therapy, motivational interviewing, and psychodynamic foundations. An integration section teaches choosing and sequencing across them, twenty-two composite cases show the decisions in motion, and appendices hold the frame, the therapist, rupture, and endings. A manual for choosing, not merely collecting.

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Basics of Psychotherapy

A working foundation for the consulting room.

What psychotherapy is, why it works, and whether it works.

Synopsis

The book to read before any modality. What the word covers, how the named therapies relate to one another, and the healing that happens outside technique altogether: spontaneous remission, the placebo, the alliance, suggestion, the group. Then the variables that shape every case, the boundary with counselling, the common core every therapy shares, and an honest chapter on whether any of it works. Built on Wolberg, restructured for teaching, and corrected where the classic account has been overtaken.

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Therapist's Guide to Case Conceptualisation

A practice standard: one formulation grammar, eight modality lenses.

A formulation should stay alive: written, shared, and revised as the work moves.

Synopsis

A compact practice standard for writing case conceptualisations that actually get used. A ten-step master guide builds the formulation, eight modality lenses show how the behavioural, cognitive, dialectical, schema, interpersonal, motivational, acceptance and emotion-focused traditions each read the same person, and a quick-reference matrix with a blank master template makes the standard reusable across a practice. It ends with the patient's own plain-language version of the formulation.

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Reading the Patient

A Field Guide to Dimensional Psychiatry

Read the patient the way the field actually thinks now, not the way the textbook still teaches.

Synopsis

A teaching text, not a reference book: the lens you put on before you reach for the checklist. Indian training still defaults to the DSM-5 categories; academic psychiatry has moved past them. This book teaches the dimensional reading in plain language, six spectra, a general factor of psychopathology, an eight-domain mental state examination, all held together by Bayesian reasoning, then carries it into three rooms: the casualty at two in the morning, the Wednesday-morning clinic, the post-operative surgical ward.

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Weave 100 & Weave 100+

The four original paper books, their illustrated companions, and the original combined book.

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Weave 100 · Original · PAPER I

Brain, Mind and Method

144 pages

Printed cover of Weave 100, Psychoses, Mood and the Adult Disorders

Weave 100 · Original · PAPER II

Psychoses, Mood and the Adult Disorders

146 pages

Printed cover of Weave 100, Child, Forensic and Special Populations

Weave 100 · Original · PAPER III

Child, Forensic and Special Populations

146 pages

Printed cover of Weave 100, Brain, Drugs and the Community

Weave 100 · Original · PAPER IV

Brain, Drugs and the Community

150 pages

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Weave 100 · Original · Complete set

All Four Papers in One Book

558 pages

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Weave Sprint

Four illustrated paper books, followed by their 40 individual study days.

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Weave Sprint · Illustrated · Paper IV

Weave Sprint - Paper IV - Neurology, Medicine and Recent Advances (Illustrated)

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