Table of Contents

Preface. The psychiatric interview and mental status examination. Laboratory testing and imaging studies in psychiatry. Delirium, dementia, and amnestic and other cognitive disorders. Substance-related disorders. Schizophrenia. Mood disorders. Anxiety disorders. Somatoform disorders. Adjustment disorders. Impulse-control disorders not elsewhere classified. Personality disorders. Disorders usually first diagnosed in infancy, childhood, or adolescence. Sleep disorders. Eating disorders: anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and obesity. Psychopharmacology. Brief psychotherapies. Psychodynamic psychotherapy. Cognitive therapy. Treatment of children and adolescents. Treatment of seniors. Psychiatry and the law. Suicide. Index.

About the Author

Robert E. Hales, M.D., M.B.A., is Joe P. Tupin Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, Davis School of Medicine. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of the American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc., and Medical Director of the Sacramento County Mental Health Service in Sacramento, California.

Stuart C. Yudofsky, M.D., is D.C. and Irene Ellwood Professor and Chairman of the Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Baylor College of Medicine, and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry of The Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas.

Glen O. Gabbard, M.D., is Brown Foundation Chair of Psychoanalysis and Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and Director of the Baylor Psychiatry Clinic, at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. He is also Training and Supervising Analyst at the Houston-Galveston Psychoanalytic Institute in Houston.

Reviews

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