Full 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.
Contents
Chapter 1 Psychiatric ClassificationChapter 2 AssessmentChapter 3 Psychotic DisordersChapter 4 Mood DisordersChapter 5 Delirium and Amnestic and Other Cognitive DisordersChapter 6 DementiaChapter 7 Suicidal and Assaultive BehaviorsChapter 8 Anxiety DisordersChapter 9 Dissociative DisordersChapter 10 Grief and the Dying PatientChapter 11 Conditions which Mimic Physical DiseaseChapter 12 Psychosomatic DisordersChapter 13 Psychiatric Symptoms of Nonpsychiatric MedicationChapter 14 Psychiatric Presentations of Medical DiseaseChapter 15 Psychiatric Presentations of Neurological DiseaseChapter 16 Psychiatry of AlcoholChapter 17 Psychiatry of Drug AbuseChapter 18 Psychosexual DisordersChapter 19 Sleep DisturbancesChapter 20 Personality DisordersChapter 21 Mental RetardationChapter 22 The PsychotherapiesChapter 23 Biological TherapyChapter 24 The Elderly PatientChapter 25 Legal IssuesChapter 26 Impulse-Control DisordersIndex
