This book presents an operationalized
psychodynamic approach to diagnosis, based on a multiaxial system. In this way it mediates between exclusively descriptive systems such as DSM IV and ICD-10 on the one hand and psychodynamic diagnoses on the other. The Operationalized Psychodynamic Diagnostics (OPD) system is based on five axes: I =
Experience of illness and prerequisites for treatment; II = Interpersonal relations; III Conflicts; IV = Structure; and V = Mental and
psychosomatic disorders. It is this Vth axis that allows the OPD diagnosis to be related to the ICD-10 and DSM IV classifications. A diagnostic questionnaire simplifies the use of the OPD in practice. This ground-breaking book…
