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This video comes from around the 1950's and has a psychiatrist playing a true/false game with a patient with schizophrenia. I wonder if this is a good way to assess a patient? What symptoms might emerge from this? These videos come from Pika Grape Snack's channel. They're educational videos that were used decades ago as teaching aids for people learning about mental illness and psychiatry. As a doctor specializing in psychiatry today, I find it really interesting to see how our understanding of these illness have changed over the years, and am often left with mixed feelings about how far we have come in some respects, and what little progress we have made in others.
The important thing when doing these assessments is not to use leading questions e.g. you feel like X, don't you? People might then nod along thinking its what you want to hear rather than it being an accurate reflection of a persons mental state. Open questions are much better. However, a lot of people with severe mental illness experience a phenomenon called 'alexithymia' - difficulties in finding the words to describe how they think and how they feel. That's where techniques like this might actually be helpful, but its a fine line.
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