Publisher's Synopsis
This is a comprehensive textbook of modern psychiatry comprising chapter written by renowned international authors and contributors. With over 400 tables and boxes summarising information it has been written in an easy-to-assimilate style with an emphasis on detailed clinical descriptions of both common and rare psychiatric disorders.Contains new chapters on clinicial epidemiology, genetics in psychiatry, neuropsychiatry, among others.Includes the DSM-5 diagnostic criteria and the current guidelines.Over 10,000 references, drawn from original data.Invaluagle for practising psychiatrists, residents, postdoctoral and postgraduate students.