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Book SynopsisThis popular book gives medical students, primary care physicians, nurses, social workers, and psychologists a jargon-free introduction to the basics, including topics such as schizophrenia, electroconvulsive therapy, transference, and tranquilizers.
Trade Review[Dr. Waldinger] has written a lean and muscular book that nicely summarizes just about everything most students will want to learn while taking their psychopathology course and psychiatry clerkship. The book is beautifully organized and written, and I could not find one wasted word.
* American Journal of Psychiatry *
It is a very comprehensive in scope, and in general the content is eclectic in orientation and would be considered by most psychiatrists as reflecting an acceptable main stream approach to the assessment, diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric illness.
* Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry *
Table of Contents Assessment Skills. The clinical interview: fundamentals of technique. Psychodynamics: some basic concepts. Taking a psychiatric history. The mental status examination. Basic Psychopathology. Schizophrenia. Mood disorders. Personality disorders. Anxiety, panic attack, phobias, dissociative disorders, and somatoform disorders. Special Populations. Geriatric psychiatry. Children and adolescents. Consultation-liaison psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry. Special Problems. Human sexuality: function and dysfunction. Substance-related disorders and eating disorders. Suicide. Violence. Treatment. Psychotherapies. Somatic therapies: psychotropic medications and electroconvulsive therapy. Appendix A: Sample Psychiatric Evaluation. Appendix B: Commonly Abused Drugs. Appendix C: Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF) Scale. Appendix D: Some Common Psychotropic Medications (classified by type). Appendix E: Trade Names of Psychotropic Medications. Index.
