Psychiatric Interview Series: Patient No 2, evaluation for Treatment (1959)

★★★★ · "...without a shadow of a doubt..." · JSBejma · 2022-11-17

Repeatedly he says this - and, curiously it's almost the only time he even slightly alters his monotonous tone. Which may indicate a delusional state - maybe with slight insight (he's still sorting out reality from delusion?). He is obviously institutionalized and given the extended reference to his mother & brother (keeps going way back in time - avoiding present), he may have been committed.The bar scene, the tumble down the steps (after being shoved?) and the supposed "robbery" that followed may be an altered / fabricated form of what really was a decompensation event which he may or may…

★★★ · wrong information posted in description · flowerbot · 2022-02-03

This is not the follow-up interview with the woman in interview number 1. It is a psychiatric interview with a 40 year old man who probably has paranoid delusions. The interview contains interesting references to American life in the early half of the 20th century. The patient being interviewed told his story with a flat affect and a sort of indiscriminate attention to detail that made the story hard to follow. I think it would be difficult to gain a great deal of diagnostic information from this interview alone, but the man's flat affect and the way in which he frequently tired to make his…