Kaplan and Sadock's Pocket Handbook of Clinical Psychiatry

by Sadock, Benjamin J.; Sadock, Virginia A.

• ISBN13: 9780781725323
• ISBN10: 0781725321
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-04-26
• Publisher: LWW

Summary

Thoroughly updated for its Third Edition, this popular quick-reference handbook remains a staple for medical students on psychiatric rotations as well as psychiatric residents and practitioners. In an easy-to-scan outline format, the book presents the etiology, epidemiology, clinical characteristics, and treatment of all psychiatric disorders. Additional chapters cover the psychiatric examination, special populations, psychotherapy, biological therapies, medication-induced movement disorders, legal issues, and laboratory tests. The book is replete with tables and includes color photographs of psychiatric drugs. Each chapter ends with suggestions for further reading, which include cross-references to specific page numbers in Kaplan and Sadock's Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, Seventh Edition.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Clinical Interview: Psychiatric History and Mental Status	1	(12)
Psychiatric Clinical Sings and Symptoms	13	(10)
Diagnosis and Classification in Psychiatry	23	(10)
Delirium, Dementia, Amnestic Disorders, and Other Cognitive Disorders, and Mental Disorders Due to a General Medical Condition	33	(22)
Neuropsychiatric Aspects of HIV and AIDS	55	(12)
Alcohol-Related Disorders	67	(12)
Other Substance-Related Disorders	79	(21)
Schizophrenia	100	(17)
Schizoaffective, Delusional, and Other Psychotic Disorders	117	(11)
Mood Disorders	128	(22)
Anxiety Disorders	150	(15)
Somatoform Disorders, Factitious Disorders, and Malingering	165	(14)
Dissociative Disorders	179	(8)
Sexual Dysfunctions, Paraphilias, and Gender Identity Disorders	187	(14)
Eating Disorders and Obesity	201	(7)
Sleep Disorders	208	(10)
Impulse-Control and Adjustment Disorders	218	(6)
Psychosomatic Medicine	224	(15)
Personality Disorders	239	(22)
Suicide, Violence, and Other Psychiatric Emergencies	261	(14)
Infant, Child, and Adolescent Disorders	275	(31)
Geriatric Psychiatry	306	(13)
End-of-Life Care, Death, Dying, and Bereavement	319	(5)
Psychotherapy	324	(11)
Psychopharmacology and Other Biological Therapies	335	(49)
Laboratory Tests and Brain Imaging in Psychiatry	384	(23)
Medication-Induced Movement Disorders	407	(7)
Legal and Ethical Issues	414	(13)
Index	427	(42)
About the Authors	469	(2)
DSM-IV-TR Classification	471