Publisher's Synopsis
This textbook comprises 40 chapters by 89 experts and combines junior and senior authors to enhance the diversity and quality of clinical perspectives. It is divided into four main parts: the theoretical bases of psychiatry, from genetics and normal development to various psychiatric assessment tools; psychiatric disorders, including those usually first diagnosed in infancy, childhood or adolescence; contemporary treatments, from psychopharmacology and electroconvulsive tharapy to hypnosis and various types of psychotherapy; and special clinical topics such as suicide, violence, women's mental health, cultural psychiatry, the law and psychiatry and ethics and psychiatry. Although intended primarily for advanced psychiatry residents and practicing psychiatrists, this volume should also be suitable as an educational reference for physicians of other specialities, including family practice, internal medicine, pediatrics and neurology.
