Table of Contents

Clinical Examination of the Psychiatric Patient 1 Psychiatric Report 11 Medical Assessment of the Psychiatric Patient 15 Laboratory Tests in Psychiatry 21 Signs and Symptoms in Psychiatry 26 Classification in Psychiatry and Psychiatric Rating Scales 33 Delirium, Dementia, and Amnestic and Other Cognitive Disorders and Mental Disorders Due to a General Medical Condition 45 Neuropsychiatric Aspects of HIV Infection and AIDS 73 Substance-Related Disorders 77 Schizophrenia 134 Other Psychotic Disorders 154 Mood Disorders 173 Anxiety Disorders 211 Somatoform and Pain Disorders 247 Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Neurasthenia 259 Factitious Disorders 261 Dissociative Disorders 266 Human Sexuality 275 Gender Identity Disorders 297 Eating Disorders 302 Normal Sleep and Sleep Disorders 309 Impulse-Control Disorders Not Elsewhere Classified 323 Adjustment Disorders 332 Personality Disorders 336 Psychological Factors Affecting Medical Condition and Psychosomatic Medicine 355 Psychiatry and Reproductive Medicine 364 Relational Problems 367 Problems Related to Abuse or Neglect 370 Additional Conditions That May Be a Focus of Clinical Attention 377 Emergency Psychiatric Medicine 382 Psychotherapies 396 Biological Therapies 418 Child Psychiatry: Assessment, Examination, and Psychological Testing 507 Mental Retardation 512 Learning Disorders 521 Motor Skills Disorder: Developmental Coordination Disorder 526 Communication Disorders 528 Pervasive Developmental Disorders 535 Attention-Deficit Disorders 544 Disruptive Behavior Disorders 548 Feeding and Eating Disorders of Infancy or Early Childhood 553 Tic Disorders 557 Elimination Disorders 562 Other Disorders of Infancy, Childhood, and Adolescence 566 Mood Disorders and Suicide in Children and Adolescents 575 Early-Onset Schizophrenia 579 Adolescent Substance Abuse 582 Child Psychiatry: Additional Conditions That May Be a Focus of Clinical Attention 585 Psychiatric Treatment of Children and Adolescents 589 Geriatric Psychiatry 599 End-of-Life Care and Palliative Medicine 603 Forensic Psychiatry 609 Ethics in Psychiatry 615 Index 619