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Most Question That The "Psychiatrist" Would Ask?
Most Question That The "Psychiatrist" Would Ask?
1. What are your complaints? 2. What was your situation when you rst noticed your symptoms? 3. What is your situation now? 4. What is your occupation? 5. Describe your parents as to their character and their health. If not alive, what illness caused their death? What was their relation to yourself? 6. How many brothers and sisters do you have? What is your position in the birth order? What is their attitude toward you? How do they get along in life? do they also have any illness? 7. Who was your fathers or mothers favorite (among the children)? What kind of upbringing did you have? 8. Inquire for signs of pampering in childhood (timidity, shyness, difculties forming friendships, disorderli-ness). 9. What illnesses did you have in childhood, and what was your attitude to them? 10. What are your earliest childhood recollections? 11. What do you fear, or what do you fear the most? 12. What is your attitude toward the opposite sex? What was it in childhood and later years? 13. What occupation would have interested you the most, and if you did not adopt it, why not? 14. Is the patient ambitious, sensitive, inclined to outbursts of temper, pedantic, domineering, shy, or impatient? 15. What sort of persons are around you at present? Are they impatient, bad-tempered, or affectionate?