The authors seek to transform their professional clinical experience into clear, concise, practical and learnable clinical skills. The work demonstrates its multidimensional approach using numerous DSM-IV case studies. It also shows how to modify clinical interviewing techniques for patients with different major psychiatric and personality disorders. Updated to include information from the DSM-IV, the guide contains vignettes that illustrate the strategies, techniques and underlying principles of clinical interviewing. Designed for both practitioners and trainees, it is intended to be used as a reference on how to approach the clinical interview.