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.

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Thoroughly revised and updated, this classic text for medical students is broad based, extremely readable, and comprehensive. Without compromising sophistication and complexity in this overview of psychiatry, Dr. Waldinger prepares medical students for the challenge of diagnosing and treating the broad range of psychiatric disorders they will encounter in primary care settings. If students read only one book on psychiatry, this should be it. Cynthia N. Kettyle, M.D., Director of Medical Student Education in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Belmont, Massachusetts This easily read text teaches the medical student fundamentals in the interviewing of patients in psychopathology. The text also describes psychopathology cleanly and simply. Dr. Waldinger guides the medical student with examples on how to interview and do a complete psychiatric diagnosis. This edition is updated and uses DSM-IV terminology. Recent advances in areas such as neurotransmitter systems, genetics, antipsychotics, and antidepressants are current in this edition. The bibliography is also updated to include the most recent research findings. Marcia Slomowitz, M.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Illinois

About the Author

Robert J. Waldinger, M.D., is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard University Medical School, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Reviews

[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.

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.