<P> <I>The Clinical Interview Using DSM-IV-TR®, Volume 2: The Difficult Patient</I> applies the four-dimensional interviewing approach outlined it its companion volume ( <I>The Clinical Interview Using DSM-IV-TR®, Volume 1: Fundamentals</I>) to the difficult patient. It also enhances the interviewing process by employing specialized techniques that correspond with difficulties often encountered by clinicians.<P>Through numerous case examples, this book shows how integrating psychodynamic, cognitive, and neuropsychiatric approachesas well as the legal systems methods of cross-examination and voices stress analysiscan help elicit reliable information from tough patients and aid in solving their diagnostic puzzles.<P>Material has been added on: </ul>? Pain in somatization disorder? Mental retardation? Oppositional behavior <P>Completely updated for DSM-IV-TR, this book strives to overcome generalization in interviewing by promoting a differential approach that individualizes and explores each disorder and all its contributing factors in depth, thus preparing the patient for optimal therapeutic intervention.</P>