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.

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.