This book provides instruction in applying basic treatment strategies to patient care. Emphasis is placed on teachi. ng diagnostic skills, and especially, the therapeutic management of emotionally disturbed patients. This book is intended as a companion text to Basic Psychopathology: A Programmed Text, whi. ch focuses more on teaching the description and observational skills for diagnosing common psychopathologic syn- dromes. Basic Psychotherapeutics gives pragmatic suggestions for treating a variety of psychopathologic disorders, many of which are newly classi- fied in the Diagnostic Statistical Manual - III (DSM-II1) published by The American Psychiatric Association. We have adopted the terminology and many, but not all, of the diagnosti. c criteria used in DSM-III. The treatment recommendations proposed are eclectic in nature and the infor- mation presented is non-theoretical and patient centered. Basic Psychotherapeutics is divided into three parts. The first re- views basic data collection procedures and treatment skills; it includes chapters on interviewing, the mental status examination and pharmaco- logic, psychologic and behavioral therapy. The next section includes chapters on commonly encountered psychiatric syndromes such as schiz- ophrenic, affective and anxiety disorders. The final chapters are pre- sentations of special clinical interest, such as the management of suicidal patients, psychiatric emergencies, treating the dying patient and his family, and others.

For there shall arise false Christ's, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.... Matthew 24:24 Nearly thirty years after The Heylik, Joshua, the Clone of Christ, is approaching his thirty third birthday

Imagine they set out to clone The Son of God... Imagine they succeed... Revelation 11:1-14, speaks of two great prophets emerging on the world scene just prior to Christ's return. They will wield spiritual powers unprecedented in human history. They will be able to alter the world geopolitically and astound the nations. The Bible calls them the two witnesses, the two olive trees, Joshua and Zerubbabel. The Son of Man will call them... The Heylik.

Imagine they set out to clone The Son of God... Imagine they succeed... The story of the infant clone of Christ and his surrogate parents continue as they flee the long arm of 'The Vinces.' Rejoin them as they settle in a strange, lawless wilderness once known as The United States of America...

Imagine they set out to clone The Son of God... Imagine they succeed... "We haven't had a chance to talk much about what it will be like to be the parents of such a...unique child." The bride pulled her eyes away from the groom and considered the priest. "I thought the Vinces wanted the baby raised in as normal an environment as possible." The priest smiled. "Yes, that is true, and for that reason you must never tell anyone who the child really is." "They covered that when I was being interviewed," the bride said, "but I never really understood why." The priest stood, walked around his desk and sat on the corner. "Ok-a hypothetical situation-we go right to the media and tell them about the baby-" "I know we can't go to the media," the bride said. "Human cloning is illegal." The priest held up his hand. "Please hear me out." "The whole damn world would be camped in our front yard," the groom said, breaking his silence. "That's what would happen." The priest pointed at the groom. "Yes, and imagine what it would be like for the child." "So, we can't tell anyone at all?" the bride said. The priest ignored her question. "Ok, say you tell your neighbors, parents, friends, that your little boy is the clone of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. First of all, they're gonna' think you're crazy, or maybe they just might believe you. Imagine how they would then react to the child." "Think of it this way," the priest continued, rearranging himself on the corner of his desk, "there are roughly around-oh, let's see-seven billion people in the world today. About a billion of those people are gonna' believe your little boy is God's own clone, and some of those folks can be pretty radical. There will be the crazy fringe bunch: those who will look upon the child as an abomination, or maybe a threat to their particular belief system. What I'm telling you now is not hypothetical. We know for a fact these people exist." "But, what about the baby?" the bride said. "How can we expect a little child to keep such a secret?" "Easy, we don't tell him."