Book description
Extensively revised and updated this edition reflects the progress and
developments in the field. With 127 chapters and over 400 contributors
this book is a truly comprehensive exposition of the specialty of psychiatry.
Written by well-known and highly regarded experts from around the
world, it takes a patient-centered approach making it an indispensable
resource for all those involved in the care of patients with
psychiatric disorders.
For this new edition, the section on the Neuroscientific Foundations
of Psychiatry has been completely revised, with a new author team
recruited by Section Editors Jonathan Polan and Eric Kandel. The
final section, Special Populations and Clinical Settings, features
important new chapters on today's most urgent topics, including the
homeless, restraint and geriatric psychiatry.
Key features include:
- Coverage of the entire field of psychiatry, from psychoanalysis
to pharmacology and brain imaging, including family relations,
cultural influence and change, epidemiology, genetics and
behavioral medicine
- Clinical vignettes describing current clinical practice in an
attractive design
- Numerous figures and tables that facilitate learning and
comprehension appear throughout the text
- Clear comparisons of the DSM-IV-TR and ICD-10 criteria for easy
understanding in a global context
- Diagnostic and treatment decision trees to help both the novice
and experienced reader
The chapter on Cognitive Behavioral Therapies by Edward Friedman,
Michael Thase and Jesse Wright is freely available. Please click on
Read Excerpt 2 above to read this superb exposition of these important
therapies.
Allan Tasman, Professor and Chairman of the Department of
Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Louisville
School of Medicine, Kentucky, is a Past President of the American
Psychiatric Association and President-Elect of the Pacific Rim College
of Psychiatrists. He is a world-renowned psychiatric leader and
educator and is Secretary for Education of the World Psychiatric
Association, responsible for all of the association's worldwide
education programmes and initiatives.
Jerald Kay, Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at
Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, is one of the leading Child
Psychiatrists and Psychiatry Educators in the US.
Jeffrey Lieberman, Director of the New York State Psychiatric
Institute and Chairman of psychiatry at Columbia University Medical
Center, is a leading psychiatric drug researcher with excellent
clinical, academic and publishing credentials. He received the Adolf
Meyer Award of the American Psychiatric Association in 2007.
Michael B First, Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Columbia
University and the Psychiatric Institute of New York, is one of the
architects of the DSM-IV-TR classification and is playing a key role
in the development of DSM-V.
Mario Maj, Professor of Psychiatry at the Primo Policlinico
Universitario in Naples, Italy, has been President of the Italian
Psychiatric Association (since 2000); President of the Italian Society
of Biological Psychiatry (since 1990); Secretary-General of the
Association of European Psychiatrists (2001-2002); Editor of
"European Psychiatry" and “World Psychiatry”. He became
President of the Association of European Psychiatrists in January 2002
and takes on the Presidency of the World Psychiatric Association in
September 2008.
