Yeppers. It is in chapter 6: Psychiatric History and Mental Status Examination.
In particular you might get a kick out of this:
'Be non-judgmental. Asking *when* masturbation began is a better approach than asking *do you* or *did you ever* masturbate'.
Lol.
I'm not sure how often psychiatrists conduct a FULL assessment of all the factors that Kaplan and Saddock run thought. But it seems that, according to Kaplan and Saddock it could indeed be appropriate to ask about attitudes towards spitting vs swallowing (for example) in a psychiatric assessment, yeah. But that being said... Whether someone is a crank or not takes time to assess... If I went to see a doc about a fear of spiders and he asked whether I spat or swallowed I'd probably walk out, yeah.
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