Pocket Handbook of Clinical Psychiatry

Thoroughly updated for its Third Edition, this popular quick-reference handbook remains a staple for medical students on psychiatric rotations as well as psychiatric residents and practitioners. In an easy-to-scan outline format, the book presents the etiology, epidemiology, clinical characteristics, and treatment of all psychiatric disorders. Additional chapters cover the psychiatric examination, special populations, psychotherapy, biological therapies, medication-induced movement disorders, legal issues, and laboratory tests. The book is replete with tables and includes colour photographs of psychiatric drugs. Each chapter ends with suggestions for further reading, which include cross-references to specific page numbers in Kaplan and Sadock's Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, Seventh Edition . Features: - A mini companion to the Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, 7/e. - New DSM-IV-TR diagnostic criteria to help refine diagnosis. - Replete with tables and colour photographs of psychiatry drugs. - Each chapter ends with suggestions for further reading. "The Kaplan and Sadock partnership has once again provided another new edition to their now infamous collection of Psychiatry titles. The new updated third edition of their Pocket Handbook of Clinical Psychiatry is a must for every medical student undertaking a Psychiatry rotation. Indeed, this book should also prove extremely useful to all professionals working with the mentally ill. This highly accessible pocket-sized guide is streamlined yet impressively thorough in its coverage of the complete range of psychiatric disorders. All diagnoses conform to the DSM-IV criteria and there is also a newly released ‘text revision’ (DSM-IV). The text presents key facts on epidemiology, etiology, diagnosis, clinical features and treatment options. The reader will also find current information on newly approved psychotropic agents. In keeping with the familiar tradition of the other titles in the Kaplan and Sadock Psychiatry series, there are up-to-date coloured plates of all the commonly used drugs in Psychiatry, which facilitates rapid and easy identification. Another attribute of this title that merits special mention is the well-organised and highly logical layout of the text, which succeeds in helping the reader to locate the essentials in a fraction of the time. In this regard, the contents page is pleasingly minimalist. Of considerable benefit to the medical student are the first three chapters which acquaint the newcomer with the art of history taking, as well as familiarizing the student with current psychiatry terminology, including valuable sections on psychiatric clinical signs and symptoms in addition to diagnosis and classification. In summary, the third edition of Kaplan and Sadock’s Pocket Handbook of Clinical Psychiatry is a splendid quick-reference, rapid-access guide to the core facts in Psychiatry and ideally complements more detailed reference texts in the same series including Kaplan and Sadock’s Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry ". Tanya Monaghan Southampton University