Psychiatry
7th Edition
Published on 28. August 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-0-7817-7452-9 (ISBN)
Description
Thoroughly updated for its Seventh Edition, this House Officer Series volume will remain a best-seller among medical students in psychiatry clerkships, psychiatric residents, other mental health professionals, and primary care physicians. This succinctly written pocket-sized textbook provides the key information readers need to succeed in rounds and pass board exams.
Chapters provide complete, up-to-the-minute coverage of all major disorders, psychotherapies, and biological therapies. Diagnostic discussions are aligned with DSM-IV-TR and treatment recommendations are given in stepwise fashion. This edition describes several new disorders, provides greater coverage of psychotherapies, offers up-to-date information on psychopharmacology, and includes contemporary neuroscience and molecular genetics.
Chapters provide complete, up-to-the-minute coverage of all major disorders, psychotherapies, and biological therapies. Diagnostic discussions are aligned with DSM-IV-TR and treatment recommendations are given in stepwise fashion. This edition describes several new disorders, provides greater coverage of psychotherapies, offers up-to-date information on psychopharmacology, and includes contemporary neuroscience and molecular genetics.
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Series
Edition
7th edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Philadelphia
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 191 mm
Width: 114 mm
Weight
272 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7817-7452-9 (9780781774529)
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Previous edition
David A. Tomb
Psychiatry
Book
12/1999
6th Edition
Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
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Content
Chapter 1 Psychiatric Classification
Chapter 2 Assessment
Chapter 3 Psychotic Disorders
Chapter 4 Mood Disorders
Chapter 5 Delirium and Amnestic and Other Cognitive Disorders
Chapter 6 Dementia
Chapter 7 Suicidal and Assaultive Behaviors
Chapter 8 Anxiety Disorders
Chapter 9 Dissociative Disorders
Chapter 10 Grief and the Dying Patient
Chapter 11 Conditions which Mimic Physical Disease
Chapter 12 Psychosomatic Disorders
Chapter 13 Psychiatric Symptoms of Nonpsychiatric Medication
Chapter 14 Psychiatric Presentations of Medical Disease
Chapter 15 Psychiatric Presentations of Neurological Disease
Chapter 16 Psychiatry of Alcohol
Chapter 17 Psychiatry of Drug Abuse
Chapter 18 Psychosexual Disorders
Chapter 19 Sleep Disturbances
Chapter 20 Personality Disorders
Chapter 21 Mental Retardation
Chapter 22 The Psychotherapies
Chapter 23 Biological Therapy
Chapter 24 The Elderly Patient
Chapter 25 Legal Issues
Chapter 26 Impulse-Control Disorders
Index
Chapter 2 Assessment
Chapter 3 Psychotic Disorders
Chapter 4 Mood Disorders
Chapter 5 Delirium and Amnestic and Other Cognitive Disorders
Chapter 6 Dementia
Chapter 7 Suicidal and Assaultive Behaviors
Chapter 8 Anxiety Disorders
Chapter 9 Dissociative Disorders
Chapter 10 Grief and the Dying Patient
Chapter 11 Conditions which Mimic Physical Disease
Chapter 12 Psychosomatic Disorders
Chapter 13 Psychiatric Symptoms of Nonpsychiatric Medication
Chapter 14 Psychiatric Presentations of Medical Disease
Chapter 15 Psychiatric Presentations of Neurological Disease
Chapter 16 Psychiatry of Alcohol
Chapter 17 Psychiatry of Drug Abuse
Chapter 18 Psychosexual Disorders
Chapter 19 Sleep Disturbances
Chapter 20 Personality Disorders
Chapter 21 Mental Retardation
Chapter 22 The Psychotherapies
Chapter 23 Biological Therapy
Chapter 24 The Elderly Patient
Chapter 25 Legal Issues
Chapter 26 Impulse-Control Disorders
Index