Thoroughly updated for its Seventh Edition, this House Officer Series volume will remain a best-seller among medical students in psychiatry clerkships, psychiatric residents, other mental health professionals, and primary care physicians. This succinctly written pocket-sized textbook provides the key information readers need to succeed in rounds and pass board exams.

Chapters provide complete, up-to-the-minute coverage of all major disorders, psychotherapies, and biological therapies. Diagnostic discussions are aligned with DSM-IV-TR and treatment recommendations are given in stepwise fashion. This edition describes several new disorders, provides greater coverage of psychotherapies, offers up-to-date information on psychopharmacology, and includes contemporary neuroscience and molecular genetics.

Chapter 1 Psychiatric Classification

Chapter 2 Assessment

Chapter 3 Psychotic Disorders

Chapter 4 Mood Disorders

Chapter 5 Delirium and Amnestic and Other Cognitive Disorders

Chapter 6 Dementia

Chapter 7 Suicidal and Assaultive Behaviors

Chapter 8 Anxiety Disorders

Chapter 9 Dissociative Disorders

Chapter 10 Grief and the Dying Patient

Chapter 11 Conditions which Mimic Physical Disease

Chapter 12 Psychosomatic Disorders

Chapter 13 Psychiatric Symptoms of Nonpsychiatric Medication

Chapter 14 Psychiatric Presentations of Medical Disease

Chapter 15 Psychiatric Presentations of Neurological Disease

Chapter 16 Psychiatry of Alcohol

Chapter 17 Psychiatry of Drug Abuse

Chapter 18 Psychosexual Disorders

Chapter 19 Sleep Disturbances

Chapter 20 Personality Disorders

Chapter 21 Mental Retardation

Chapter 22 The Psychotherapies

Chapter 23 Biological Therapy

Chapter 24 The Elderly Patient

Chapter 25 Legal Issues

Chapter 26 Impulse-Control Disorders

Index